Improving Students' Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text through Picture Series

Abstract

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah ada i) peningkatan 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. 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 improvement in students’ reading comprehension in narrative text after being taught by using picture series, and ii) students’ responses of picture series in teaching reading narrative texts. One group pretest and posttest design was used in this research. The data were obtained from pre-test, post-test, and questionnaires. The result showed that there was a statistically significant improvement of students’ reading comprehension after after they were taught through picture series with the significant level 0.05. This indicates that  picture series as the media facilitates the students to improve their comprehension in reading narrative text.

Keywords: picture series, narrative text, teaching reading