ENHANCING STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY IN INTERMEDIATE READING CLASS THROUGH SQ4R (A CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH)

Abstract

Abstract
Based on the result of preliminary study, it was found that students’ reading ability of second graders of
English Department was considered low. This condition can be seen as the result of the pre-test in which
most of the students scored lower than 68, since the institution in which this research took place graded
the range score of 68 as “Good”. Therefore, an alternative method in reading activity was introduced
namely SQ4R. SQ4R is a reading strategy which consists of 6 steps; survey, question, read, recite,
relate, and review. There were 27 students involved in this research. The data were gathered from the
result of test in each Cycle, observation and FGD. The result of the research which was conducted in
two Cycle shows that there was significance improvement of students’ reading score in which 23 out of
27 students (85%) of the students could score 68.  
Keywords: reading, reading skill, SQ4R