TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT OFTHE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OFSMAN 1 KARANGANYAR DEMAK IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013 BY USING STORY MAPPING

Nugraha , Rezha Ady. 2013. “Teaching Reading Comprehension of the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 1 Karanganyar Demak in Academic Year 2012/2013 by Using Story Mapping”.Skripsi.English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muria Kudus University. Advisor: (i)Atik Rokhayani ,S.Pd., M.Pd.(ii) Dr. Slamet Utomo, M.Pd. Key words: Reading comprehension, Story mapping. As one of the language skill, reading skill is important for the students to be mastered beside listening, speaking, and writing. And in the reading activity the students are expected to have competence in comprehending the text. The major problem faced by them is how to comprehend the elements of the story. They are hardly to concentrate as they read and most of them are not interested in reading. Story Mapping is proposed as an alternative approach to solve the problems. Story Mapping a is a strategy that uses a graphic organizer to help students learn the elements of a book or story. By identifying the characters, plot, setting, problem and solution of the story, students read carefully to learn the details. The research is designed to improve students’ reading comprehension of narrative text being taught by Story Mapping. The objective of the research is to find out whether or not there is significant difference between the reading comprehension of narrative text of the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Karanganyar Demak in academic year 2012/2013 before and after being taught by using Story Mapping. The design of this research is a quasi experiment. This research uses one group of pre-test and post test design.The population of this research are the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Karanganyar Demak in academic year 2012/2013 which consist of 218 students. The sample of this research is X-5 H of SMAN 1 Karanganyar Demak. The writer uses reading narrative text as the material and prepares 40 multiple choices for the instrument of the research. In finding a significant difference between two variables, the writer conducted t-test for dependent sample. The calculation of the collected data results thatin the level significance 0.05 or 5% and degree of freedom (df) 44, the t observation (t0) is 13,05 and the t table (tt) is 2.04. It means that t0> tt (t observation is higher than t table). Based on the result of the research above,the researcher concludes that the use of Story Mapping for the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Karanganyar Demak in the academic year 2012/2013 can improve their reading comprehension of narrative text. The researcher also expects that Story mapping can be used as one of alternative teaching techniques to teach reading