STORYTELLING AS A STUDENTS’ READING NARRATIVE ACHIEVEMENT PARAMETER OF SECOND GRADE STUDENTS AT SMPN 14 KOTA CIREBON: A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

MASYITHOH PUTRI: STORYTELLING AS A STUDENTS’ READING NARRATIVE ACHIEVEMENT PARAMETER OF SECOND GRADE STUDENTS AT SMPN 14 KOTA CIREBON: A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Reading is one of four important skills which should be mastered by English learners. Commonly, teaching reading comprehension will be evaluated by questioning, this technique cannot promise whether the students understand or not about the text. Relating to this issue, in this thesis, the researcher puts the storytelling technique as a method to determine the product of students’ reading comprehension. Reading is a complex activity including both of perception and thought. It is also consisting of two related processes, word recognition and comprehension, while, assessment is one of stages in teaching which is used to provide feedback and measure progress. And, Storytelling is an activity which requires the integration of many skills that are part of the comprehension process, such as understanding, remembering, and sequencing the events and major concepts presented in text. This research is classified into a descriptive qualitative method because it was designed to observe the phenomenon include surveys and fact-finding enquiries of different kinds. The primary goal of this research is to know the implementation and the contribution of storytelling in assessing students’ reading comprehension. It is also used to find out the problems of using this technique. The participants are the 2nd grade students at SMPN 14 Kota Cirebon, it takes a month for doing this research. The researcher used observation and questionnaire for collecting data, interviews and document analysis of students’ score used as triangulation of the data resulted. As results of this research, storytelling is an easy assessment which can be implemented. The problems found are the need of time consuming is longer than common technique, other problems are psychological factors such as interest and self-motivation. It gives contributions for students in understanding a narrative reading text. Storytelling motivates students to read and understand the text in whole, it is also make them struggling in reading. Finally, the researcher concludes that using other techniques like storytelling to measure students’ comprehension is good enough. The researcher expects this research will be able to help the next researcher who conducts the research in the same field. Moreover, the research’s product is expected to be useful for developing technique of assessing reading comprehension