The Use of PQ4R (Preview, Question, Read, Reflect, Recite, Review) Strategy to Improve Reading Skill at 2nd Grade of SMK Asy-Syafa’ah in Academic Year 2024-2025

Maulana, Ahmad Hamdan (2025) The Use of PQ4R (Preview, Question, Read, Reflect, Recite, Review) Strategy to Improve Reading Skill at 2nd Grade of SMK Asy-Syafa’ah in Academic Year 2024-2025. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Keywords: PQ4R Strategy, Reading Skill

Relating the importance of reading skills to learn English in academics, reading helps students to think more clearly and deeply. Reading skills in English include sufficient knowledge and the ability to express thoughts and ideas in reading text. Some specific readings include factual information, main idea, vocabulary, reference, and inference. The students can improve their reading skills with the Pq4r strategy through previewing, questioning, reading, reflecting, reciting, and reviewing. Moreover, reading skills are one of the 4 important basic skills in English, therefore the main objective of reading is directed to improve students’ skills in English.
The research question of this research is “How Could the use of the PQ4R (Preview, Question, Read, Reflect, Recite, Review) strategy Improve Reading Skills in 2nd Grade of SMK Asy-Syafa’ah?. Based on the research question the research objective is to Improve students’ reading by using PQ4R strategy at 2nd Grade of SMK Asy- Syafa’ah that had problem in reading.
The study used Classroom Action Research (CAR). The research design was collaborative classroom action research. The location was SMK As – Syafa;ah The participants of this research were the students of 2nd grade of SMK Asy-Syafa’ah which consisted of 15 students. The research was carried out in one cycle, which consisted of planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. Data collection techniques used in this research were student’s reading test (Multiple-choice), observation, interview, and field note. This research used content validity, which involved the English teacher as a validator of the reading test.
The result of student’s reading test scores after the cycle showed that the percentage 66,6% or 10 students from all students with the average was 76 who passed the KKM and for the students who did not pass the KKM was 5 students. It could be said that the implementation of the PQ4R strategy to improve students’ reading skills in the 2nd grade of SMK Asy-Syafa’ah was successful. The observation result concluded by applying PQ4R students could find factual information, understand the main idea, guess the meaning vocabulary, refer to the object from the subject (reference), and imply the text (inference)

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