INCREASING STUDENTSâ€TM NARRATIVE TEXT READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY THROUGH SERIAL PICTURES

Main Authors: Fitriyaningsih, Dwi, Sutarsyah, Cucu, Simanjuntak, Edhita Gloria
Format: Article info application/pdf eJournal
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: FKIP UNILA , 2013
Online Access: http://jurnal.fkip.unila.ac.id/index.php/123/article/view/634
http://jurnal.fkip.unila.ac.id/index.php/123/article/view/634/364
Daftar Isi:
  • Reading is one of the important skills that the students have to master so that they can get information from the text. However, many students have difficulties in comprehending a text because of uninterested media. Therefore the aim of this research were to find out whether there is a significant difference of studentsâ€TM narrative text reading comprehension ability before and after being taught through serial pictures and to investigate if there was a increase of studentsâ€TM narrative text reading comprehension ability after being taught through serial pictures. The samples of the research were the tenth grade of SMA N 8 Bandar Lampung in the year 2012/2013. The research applied one group pre-test post-test design. The result of the learning reading using serial pictures showed that there is a significant difference on studentsâ€TM reading comprehension (p<0.05, p=0.00). The average of post-test score (79.77) was higher than the pre-test (66.97), and it has gain 12.8. It means that there is increase of studentsâ€TM narrative text reading comprehension ability after being taught through serial pictures.  Keywords:narrative text, reading comprehension, serial pictures