THE EFFECT OF STORY FACE ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT IN GRADE VIII OF ISLAMIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL NURUL HIDAYAH PEMATANG KAYU ARANG

Several different efforts are constantly done to improve the students’ ability in English reading comprehension. One of them is to apply any recent theories of the teaching technique to the processes of teaching reading. The effectiveness of teaching techniques should be proved several times in the real situation or classroom context. This research has been conducted to determine the effect of Story Face on Students’ Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text in Grade VIII of Islamic Junior High School Nurul Hidayah Pematang Kayu Arang. The design of this research was pre-experimental design, specifically one group pretest and posttest design. The general question to be answered by this research was: Is there any significant effect of story face on students’ reading comprehension of narrative text? The results of the data analysis revealed that, students’ reading comprehension achievement increased significantly after the researcher implemented the use of story face when teaching narrative text. The researcher found that t test result was bigger than t-table (tt), that was 2.06 < 3.43 > 2.79. Based on the findings of this research, it is suggested to every English teacher to give a try or expand the use of story face for teaching reading in the genre of narrative text