The Effectiveness of Using SQ3R Strategy on Teaching Reading Comprehension

: As an attempt to overcome the students’ difficulty in reading comprehensionn, SQ3R (survey, question, read, review, and recite) is conducted. This study aims to find out whether the use of SQ3R is effective for the students or not. It employs the quasi-experimental design and gives the different treatment. That is, the Experimental Group is taught by using SQ3R strategy and the Control Group is taught without using SQ3R strategy and at the end of the treatment, the test is given in order to get the valid result or score. Then, the data is managed by using statistical matter and computed by using T-test formula. And it is found that T-finding (64.3) for the Experimental Group is bigger than T-found (61.4) for the Control Group in significance 1.45%. So, it can be said that using SQ3R strategy is useful and effective in teaching reading comprehension. Besides that, it can motivate the students eagerness in learning English. But, before implementing this strategy, the teacher should give a clear instruction to the students in using SQ3R strategy to avoid misunderstanding.