Siti Hurriyah:
This research was conducted in the English Classroom of second grade of
senior high school at MA Bina Cendekia twenty students as the participants. The main
concentration of this research is the ability of students’ comprehension of a text
especially narrative text using intensive reading. The research design is descriptive
qualitative. Intensive reading is the part of descriptive qualitative which determines
that this research is using qualitative method.
This research aims to identify intensive reading applied in the English
classroom. Also to clarify how reader identify the narrative text. This research
involves the researcher as the main instrument and the data is collected by open
questionnaire.
This research was applied descriptive qualitative method in analyzing data. The
participants were taken from a purposive sampling. They were 20 students of second
grade of senior high school especially of social. To make it the data more accurate and
valid, the researcher used open questionnaire contained open ended question as the
techniques of collecting data.
The result of this research shows that intensive reading in the English
classroom of second grade of senior high school at MA Bina Cendekia. Students do
intensive reading to understand all of the contents of the story and with it could
understand the message it conveys. And then, learning narrative use strategy preview,
question, read, and summarise than just reading a kind of narrative text. The students
could improve their skill in reading comprehension narrative text.
Key words: Reading, Intensive reading, Narrative tex
