The Effect of PQ4R (Preview, Question, Read, Reflect) Strategy and Reading Motivation on Students’ Reading Comprehensionat SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Padang.

The PQ4R strategy is used to help students remember what they read and help the learning process in the classroom. The PQ4R strategy can activate students' initial knowledge and then connect new information with already known information.This study aims to find the effect of the PQ4R strategy on students' reading motivation and reading comprehension of students at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Padang. This research is a quasi-experiment using a 2x2 factorial design. The population of this study were students of class XI IPS Muhammadiyah 3 Padang for the 2019/2020 academic year which consisted of four classes (116 students). The research sample was selected using a random cluster technique. Selected as the sample class XI IPS 1 as the experimental class and class XI IPS 3 as the control class. The instruments used to obtain the data were a reading motivation questionnaire and a reading comprehension test. The results of this study reveal that: (1) the effect of PQ4R strategy toward students’ reading comprehension. (2)the effect of PQ4R strategy on students' reading comprehension with high motivation. (3) thenoeffect of of PQ4R strategy on students' reading comprehension with low motivation. (4), no interaction between PQ4R strategy toward students’ reading motivation and students reading comprehension. However, there was no significant mean difference between teaching methods and reading motivation on students' reading comprehension.