Many students at SMAN 1 Sukodadi get difficulties in comprehending the text, especially students in tenth grade, because they has bad reading habit and the teacher still uses conventional strategy. Teaching reading comprehension can be taught using Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy to increase students reading comprehension. Therefore, this research was aimed to know the improvement of QAR strategy on students reading comprehension. This research was quasi-experimental research which involved two groups. The sample of this research was two classes of the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Sukodadi. There was X MIPA 4 as an experimental group that using QAR strategy and X MIPA 5 as a control group that using lecturing strategy. The data were in the form of quantitative data and were taken from pre-test before having treatment for each class and post-test after having treatment for each class. The data were analyzed by using ANCOVA in SPSS 22 version for windows to test the hypothesis. The result of this research showed that the mean scores of the experimental group improved before being treated was 54.37 then the mean scores after being given treatment were 83.06. In addition, the significant value was 0.000 (p < 0.05). It means the null hypothesis is rejected and the alternative hypothesis is accepted. There is significant effect in reading comprehension of the tenth grade students at SMAN 1 Sukodadi after taught by using QAR strategy. It can be concluded that teaching reading comprehension using QAR strategy is effective on students’ reading comprehension.

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