The Effectiveness of Pre Reading Plan (PReP)Technique to Improve Student’s Reading Comprehensionof Narrative Text

Abstract

The present study intended to investigate the effectiveness of pre reading plan (PReP) technique to improve student’s reading comprehension of narrative text at one senior high school in Pinrang. How is the students’ reading comprehension. This study is aimed to know the students’ reading comprehension before and after applying Pre Reading Plan Technique and to finding outis applying Pre Reading Plan Technique able to improve students’ reading comprehension. Beside that, the purpose of writing this article is to describe how teaching of reading through the PReP technique. The article support by a literature review  of PReP technique theory in teaching reading. The information about of PReP technique supported by expert theory, it can be used as a source of information about English teaching technique especially reading that can be applied by teachers in high school.  This study employed a quantitatif research design which is a case study using pre-experimental design  which applied (one group pre-test and post-test design). The study found out that the students’ reading comprehension had increased after doing the learning process by usingpre reading plan (PReP) technique. So, it can be concluded that the pre reading plan (PReP) technique is effective to improve student’s reading comprehension of narrative text. This study also provides a set of recommendation to avoid the overlapped researches in education technology.