IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ON NARRATIVE TEXT BY USING STORY MAPPING

This research is entitled “Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension on Narrative Text by Using Story Mapping, (A Quasi-Experimental Study Done in the Second Grade of Junior High School)”. The aims of the research are to know whether or not Story Mapping is effective to improve students’ reading comprehension on narrative text and to know whether or not Story Mapping is significantly more effective to improve the students’ reading comprehension on narrative text. The subject of the research was the second grade of SMP Tunas Baru Ciparay. The researcher took two classes that each of them consist of 24 students. The sample of the research were VIII-C as the experimental group and VIII-D as the control group. In obtaining the data, the researcher conducted pre-test and post-test. Based on the computation result by using t-test formula, with df = 46 at p = .05 of two-tailed, the critical value of t is 2.021. The result of the pre-test was lower than the critical table (0.001<2.021), which means that there was no significant difference between experimental group and control group before treatment. The result of the post-test was higher than the critical table (3.756>2.021), which means that there was significant difference between experimental group and control group after treatment. It also means that teaching reading comprehension on narrative text by using Story Mapping is significantly more effective than using the conventional method.Keywords : Reading, Narrative Text, Story Mappin