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In English language teaching, teaching reading plays an important role, for reading is one of language skills. In order to succeed doing this activity, a teacher must be familiar and able to employ various teaching reading
strategies that can assist his/her students comprehend what they read. To check students’ reading comprehension, a teacher may propose several questions related to the texts being read. However, if the students have difficulties dealing with these reading comprehension questions, a teacher must be able to help them by introducing reading strategies to overcome the problems. QAR is one of reading strategies which is beneficial for a teacher to check students’ reading comprehension and frame reading question-answer activity in reading phases: pre-, while-, and post-reading; as well as to help students locate answers for the questions.

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Teaching reading reading strategy question-answer relationship

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Muzammil, S. (2017). QAR (QUESTION ANSWER RELATIONSHIP) AS AN ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY TO TEACH READING. JL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching), 2(2), 101 - 123. https://doi.org/10.32505/jl3t.v2i2.17

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