Using Cooperative Discussion Questioning (Coop-Dis-Q) Strategy toward Narrative Reading to the Tenth Grade Students of MA Al-Fatah Palembang

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not there was a significant difference in reading comprehension achievement between the tenth grade students of MA Al-Fatah Palembang who are taught by using Coop-Dis-Q strategy and those who are not, and to find out whether or not there was a significant improvement before and after the treatments on students’ narrative reading comprehension achievement taught by using Coop-Dis-Q strategy at the tenth grade of MA Al-Fatah Palembang. The sample was 70 students. In collecting the data, the test was given twice to experimental and control groups, as a pretest and posttest. The data were analyzed by using independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test in SPSS 20 program. The finding showed that the p-output (sig.(2-tailed)) was 0.004 lower than 0.05 and the t-value 2.990 was higher than t-table 1.667. Therefore it could be stated that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It means that narrative reading comprehension by using Coop-Dis-Q strategy had a significant improvement on the students’ reading comprehension achievement.