Improving students’ reading narrative text comprehension through story mapping technique at grade VIII MTsN 2 Padangsidimpuan

Nasution, Nursalimah (2015) Improving students’ reading narrative text comprehension through story mapping technique at grade VIII MTsN 2 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research was talking about improving students’ reading comprehension by using Story Mapping Technique at grade VIII MTs Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan. Most of students had low achievement in reading narrative text comprehension, students were passive in the class, students had lack of reading interest and also lack of motivation, and students did not have the suitable technique for reading. The problems were influenced by internal and external factors. The problems in internal factors were students’ difficulties in identifying character, identifying setting, identifying problem, identifying coda, and identifying vocabulary in context. The problems in external factors were motivation, disturbance, asking permission, and sleeping in the classroom. This research purposed to describe the students’ achievement in reading comprehension and to identify the factors which influence students’ reading comprehension by using Story Mapping Technique at grade VIII MTs Negeri 2 Padangsidimpuan. The method used in this research was classroom action research, by implementing the Hopkins design which consisted of identification problem and do the four steps. Those were planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. Moreover, to solve the reading problems the researcher applied Story Mapping Technique. In this research, the researcher used two reading tests and two cycles. Moreover, the participants of this research were the class of VIII-5 consisted of 30 students and also there was collaboration with an English teacher. Meanwhile, the data was derived among from reading tests, observation notes, and also interview. Based on the research result, showed the improvement mean score of the students. The first test in the first cycle was 70.33 (43.33%) and second test in the second cycle was 80.83 (86. 66%). It can be concluded that the mean score in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle. Then, he calculation result of to = 5.58, ttable with df = 29, level of signification in (tt5%= 2,045). It can be known that the result of to is bigger than tt. The improvement was significant. Based on observation notes stated that the students got improvement and the students were more active and interested in learning reading comprehension. Related to the interview result, it could be known that students’ reading comprehension had improved. It asserted that by using Story Mapping Technique improve students’ reading narrative text comprehension.

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