The Implementation of Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) Strategy in Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text

This thesis is entitled “The implementation of Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy in improving students’ reading comprehension of descriptive text”. This study is conducted to investigate to what extent the implementation of Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy improve the student’s ability in reading comprehension of descriptive text and to know the students’ responses toward the implementation of this strategy. The participants of this study were 29 of the second-grade high school (XI MIPA-1) students of 2021/2022 in MAN 2 Aceh Barat. This study used quantitative methodology in which the data is collected by using pre- test and post-tests, and questionnaires containing 10 questions with scale items. The result of the test shows that the mean score of pre-test is 51.6 while in the post-test is 61.3. It proved that the mean score of both are slightly different. After examining the hypothesis, the result indicates Tscore > Ttable (4.34 > 1.7), it can be concluded that Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected. It means that the implementation of Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy improve students’ reading comprehension ability. Moreover, the students gave positive responses toward the implementation of this strategy. Almost all students agree that Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy improve their ability in reading comprehension of descriptive text and most of them said that Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy was very helpful.