INCREASING STUDENTS’ NARRATIVE TEXT READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY THROUGH SERIAL PICTURES

Dwi Fitriyaningsih, Cucu Sutarsyah, Edhita Gloria Simanjuntak

Abstract


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 students’ narrative text reading comprehension ability before and after being taught through serial pictures and to investigate if there was a increase of students’ 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 students’ 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 students’ narrative text reading comprehension ability after being taught through serial pictures.

 

Keywords:

narrative text, reading comprehension, serial pictures

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