Improving Students' Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text through Picture Series at The First Grade Students of SMA N 3 Metro

Abstract

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui i) apakah ada peningkatan yang signifikan pada kemampuan membaca siswa dalam Teks Naratif setelah diajar dengan menggunakan Picture Series, dan ii) respon siswa terhadap penggunaan Picture Series dalam pembelajaran reading Teks Naratif. One group pretest and posttest design adalah desain yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Data penelitian diperoleh melalui pretest, posttest, dan questionnaire. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa ada peningkatan yang signifikan pada kemampuan membaca siswa setelah diajar menggunakan picture series dengan tingkat significan 0.05. Selain itu, siswa juga memberikan respon yang baik terhadap penggunaan picture series. Sehingganya, dapat disarankan bahwa picture series sebagai media memfasilitasi siswa untuk meningkatkan kemampuan membaca pada Teks Naratif.

This research was aimed to find out i) whether there was a significant improvement of the students’ reading comprehension in narrative texts after the students were taught through picture series, and ii) how the students’ responses of the implementation of picture series in teaching reading narrative texts. One group pretest and posttest design was used in this research. The data were obtained from the pre-test, the post-test, and questionnaires. The results showed that there was a statistically significant improvement of the students’ reading comprehension after they were taught through picture series with the significant level 0.05. Moreover, the students gave good responses of the use of picture series.  This indicates that  picture series as the media facilitates the students to improve their comprehension in reading narrative texts. 

Keywords: picture series, narrative text, teaching reading