Using PQRST Strategy to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension of Hortatory Exposition Text at Grade XI IPS of MA Diniyah Puteri Pekanbaru.

This research was carried out to improve the students’ reading comprehension of hortatory texts at grade XI IPS Diniyah Puteri, Pekanbaru. The purposes of this research were to explain to what extent Preview, Question, Read, Summarize, and Test (PQRST) strategy improves their reading comprehension of hortatory exposition and to explain the factors that influence the changes of their reading comprehension of hortatory exposition text during the using of the strategy. This research was carried out in the design of classroom action research. The participants of the research were the students of grade XI IPS of MA Diniyah Puteri, Pekanbaru; which consisted of 20 students. All of them are female. This research was conducted in two cycle which had five meeting each cycle. In every cycle, a collaborator helped the researcher to collect two types of data, namely qualitative and quantitative data. The findings of the research show that implementation of PQRST strategy improves the students’ reading comprehension of hortatory exposition text. It can be Identified that the increasing average students score from cycle I to cycle II. The average score of students in cycle I was 69,83 and in cycle II was 75,83. All indicators of reading comprehension increase from cycle to cycle. Besides, the factors that play important role in improving the students’ reading comprehension of hortatory exposition text are also founded, namely the The factors are the classroom management, classroom activities, teaching strategy, teaching materials, teaching media, and the teaching approach.