| dc.description.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. | en_US |
