The effect of using picture series on students� reading comprehension of narative text: a quasi-experimental study at the second year students of Islamic School

The objective of this study was know the empirical evidence about effectiveness of students? reading comprehension of narrative text using picture series at the Second Year Students of Islamic School Al-Fallah Villa Mutiara academic year 2013/2014. The subject of this study consisted of 23 students of Islamic School Al- Fallah Villa Mutiara. The method used in this study was quantitative research and the research design was quasi-experimental study. This study was conducted following procedures of the quasi-experimental study. Data collecting technique was conducted pre-test and post-test by giving test which consists 30 multiple choice items for each test. Data analyzed used formula t-test. The result of this study shows that there was significant difference on students? reading comprehension of narrative text by picture series and without picture series. It can be seen that on the df = 44 and in the degree of significance 5% the value of degree of significance is 2.41. By comparing the value to is higher than tt. The result showed that t-test (to) > t-table (tt) (4.87 > 2.41).The alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. Therefore, it can be concluded that teaching reading by using picture series can affect the students? comprehension of narrative text