The Use of Retelling Story to Teach Reading Comprehension to Eleventh Grade Students Of MA Miftahut Thullab Cengkal sewu Sukolilo Pati In the Academic Year 2012/2013
Daftar Isi:
- Reading is an important aspect in language learning. By reading, we can convey information and ideas. Reading skill is the ability to read including about the understanding of meaning and also message, which implied in the reading text.The students are expected to be able to use English both oral and written communication. In fact, many students have difficulties in reading English. The students are passive in the teaching and learning process of reading, the students don’t have any idea or initiative to read, or when they have ideas, they don’t know how to express the ideas. It’s due to the lack of vocabulary, lack of understanding of grammatical patterns, and lack of practicing English reading. Based on the fact, the writer thinks that it would be better using retelling story to solve this problem. Retelling Story is the activity to retell the story or event again in own language. Its make process of teaching and learning more fun and comfort to the students. The writer is interested in using retelling story because this technique is easy to practice. The objective of this research is to find out whether or not there is a significant difference between the reading ability of the eleventh grade students of MA MiftahutThullabCengkalsewuSukoliloPati in the academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using retelling story. Experimental design is design, of this research, use one group pre-test post-test. The population is the eleventh grade students of MA MiftahutThullabCengkalsewuSukoliloPati in the academic year 2012/2013. The writer chooses XI as experiment. The number of sample is 30 students. The writer used a test as instrument of the research. The test is multiple choice and essay consist of 20 items. The result of this research shows that there is a significant difference between reading ability of the eleventh grade students of MA MiftahutThullabCengkalsewuSukoliloPati in the academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using retelling story, it is presented with the t-test (to) = 17.84 > t-table (tt)= 2.05. It indicates that alternative hypothesis that there is significant difference between reading ability of the eleventh grade students of MA MiftahutThullabCengkalsewuSukoliloPati in the academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using retelling story is confirmed. Therefore, the writer suggest that it would be better for the teacher to apply retelling story as effective technique to teach reading, because it can improve reading skill for the students.