Improving students? reading comprehension of narrative text through story mapping: a classroom action research at eight grade student of SMP PGRI 2 Ciputat
| Main Author: | Anna Agus Selviana |
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| Format: | Bachelors |
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Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan
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Daftar Isi:
- The objective of the research was to get empirical evidence of the improving students? reading comprehension of narrative text through story mapping technique. The method of this research was classroom action research which was conducted in two cycles. The subject of this research was the 2nd Grade of SMP PGRI 2 Ciputat at Academic Year 2013/2014 with total number of students 34. The research instruments were the observation and test form. The result of this study shows that the students? improved their understanding of narrative text during teaching and learning process by using story mapping. It is proven by the data which derived from this study. From the observation, it could be seen that the students were more active and interested in learning narrative text and from the result. There were three tests conducted, those are pre-test 1 and post-test 2. The improvement of students? understanding of narrative text can be seen clearly in the improvement of their achievement in pre-test and post-test. The result of pre-test and post-test showed the significant improvement. The mean of pre-test score is 48.35. The minimal mastery level criterion (KKM) in SMP PGRI 2 Ciputat is 70 (seventy). It means there were only 2.94% of the whole students could pass the KKM. The mean of post-test 1 score is 61.64. It is proven that 17.64% students passed KKM. Next, the mean of post-test 2 score is 76.58. The percentage of students who could get the above the KKM in post-test 2 is 85.29%. From this research finding, it showed that story mapping technique could improve the students? reading comprehension of narrative text.