UUM UMAYANTI : “THE INFLUENCE OF THE APPLICATION OF PREQUESTIONING
ON READING COMPREHENSION AT
SMK GRACIKA CIREBON”
Naturally, the existence of language in the world cannot be separated from the
life of human being. This is because that language is the only tool for them to
communicate between or among themselves. All of people existing in the world use
language to communicate one other. But a very few people understand about the
meaning of language.
The aims of research are to find out the data about the students’ response to the
application of pre-questioning on reading comprehension and to find out data about
students achievement on reading comprehension and to know positive and
significance influence of application of pre-questioning on reading comprehension.
The approach of research in writing this thesis is quantitative approach. It means
that the data which is obtained from the field of the research is then analyzed
statistically by means of numbers by using formula of product moment.
In collecting the data, the techniques used by the writer are observation,
interview, questionnaire and test. The data that have been collected were computed
and analyzed by product moment formula. It aims to know the influence of the
application of pre-questioning on reading comprehension at second grade students of
SMK Gracika Cirebon in academic year 2012”
The analysis of test shows that the average score of the students’ response to the
application of pre-questioning on reading comprehension is 78 and categorized as
“high”. The average score of the students achievement test on reading comparison is
81 and categorized as ”high ”. Meanwhile, the value of t-observed (ha) is 7 and the
value of t-table (ho) of degree of freedom (df) 33 with significance 5% is 2. 03
because (ha>ho). It means that there is a significant and positive influence of the
application of pre-questioning on reading comprehension at SMK Gracika Cirebon
