THE EFFECT OF USING STORY MAPPING TECHNIQUE ON READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EIGHTH YEAR STUDENTS AT MTs. NEGERI BANGSALSARI IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

This experimental research was intended to investigate whether or not there was a significant effect of using Story Mapping Technique on reading comprehension achievement on the Eighth year students at MTs. Negeri Bangsalsari in the 2012/2013 academic year. The research populations were the eighth year students who were determined purposely by consulting to the eighth year English teacher. The area of this research was MTs. Negeri Bangsalsari that was chosen purposely because Story Mapping Technique had never been applied in teaching reading comprehension in this school. In addition, it was possible to get permission to conduct the research in MTs. Negeri Bangsalsari. The eighth year students in MTs. Negeri Bangsalsari were homogeneous so the researcher did the lottery to choose the classes which were experimental group and control group. The result showed that the class of VIII C was treated as experimental class and VIII C was the control class .Both classes were taught by the reaearcher as the teacher two times. The activity in both classes had different treatment. The experimental class (VIII C) taught by using Story Mapping Technique. And the other hand, the control group which (VIII B) taught by using Three Phase Technique in teaching reading comprehension. Before giving post test, try out was conducted to know the reliability, validity and the difficulty index of the test items. In this research, the analysis of the try out scores proved that the test items were reliable since the result of the whole score of the test reliability was 0.66. It was considered reliable since the standard reliability coefficient of teacher made test  0.50. So, the researcher did not have to make any revision of the test items. After giving different treatment in both classes; the experimental and the control group; the researcher administered post test. Therefore, the post test result called as a primary data and the supporting data were documentation and interview. The primary data of this research were collected from the students’ post test score of reading comprehension. Otherwise, documentation and interview with the English teacher were used to get the supporting data. The primary data were analyzed by using t-test formula with 5% significant level. The results of the degree of freedom (Df) was 71 then it was known that t-table was 2.00. The statistical computation in reading comprehension achievement indicated that the statistical value of t-test was 3.7. So, the comparison of the result of t-tes and t-table was 3.7 > 2.00 (t-test was higher than t-table), it meant that the null hypothesis was rejected, while the alternate hypothesis was accepted. In conclusion, there was a significant effect of using Story Mapping Technique on reading comprehension achievement on the eighth year students at MTs. Negeri Bangsalsari in the 2012/2013 academic year.