Effects of Pre-questioning
and Main Idea Positions on the Reading Comprehension of Definition Paragraph
Performed by the Twelfth Grade Students of SMA Negeri 2 Kahayan Tengah in
Academic Year 2012/2013
Helfried
Graduate
Program in English Education
Palangka
Raya University
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate
the effect of pre-questioning on reading comprehension of definition paragraph,
the effect of main idea positions on reading comprehension of definition
paragraph, and the effect of pre-questioning and of main idea positions on
reading comprehension of definition paragraph performed by the twelfth grade
students of SMA Negeri 2 Kahayan Tengah in academic year 2012/2013. The
pre-questionings that used were oral and written pre-questioning. Main idea
positions that used were main idea at the beginning and at the end of the
paragraph. The population of this study was all classes of the twelfth grade at
SMA Negeri 2 Kahayan Tengah. The sample was the whole population.
The writer used quasi-experimental
method in this study. The experiment was using randomized post-test only
design. The main data was the students’ score that gained from reading test.
The data were processed and analyzed according to these steps: taking the data,
coding, scoring, tabulating, analyzing by using SPSS version 17, and taking
conclusion based on the statistical result. In taking conclusion, the writer
also added some information that gained from the supporting data. The
supporting data was the questionnaire.
The result of this study showed that the
two null hypotheses were rejected and one null hypothesis was accepted. For
brief, there were significant effects of pre-questioning on students’ reading
comprehension of definition paragraph. There were no significant effects of
main idea positions on students’ reading comprehension of definition paragraph.
There was interaction effect between pre-questioning and main idea positions on
students’ reading comprehension of definition paragraph in this study.
Keywords: Reading Comprehension, Pre-questioning,
Main Idea, Definition Paragraph, Students
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