THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING FABLE TEXT ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION IN NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE SECOND SEMESTEROF THE NINTH GRADE OF SMPN 07 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021

ABSTRACT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING FABLE TEXT ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION IN NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE SECOND SEMESTEROF THE NINTH GRADE OF SMPN 07 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021 By Novia Lestari The result of this research is to know whether there was an effectiveness of using fable text on students‟ reading comprehension at the second semester of the ninth grade SMPN 07 Bandar Lampung in the academic year 2020/2021. Based on the preliminary research that were many students had difficult when they comprehend reading text. it showed students‟ reading comprehension of SMPN 07 still less especially in reading narrative text. it can be seen from the students‟ reading comprehension which showed 76.08% of the students got a score under the criteria minimum mastery. The subject of this research was students of 9.1 consisting of 30 students. The method used in this research was the pre-experimental one-group pre-test-post- test design. The instrument was narrative fable text comprehension test. After giving the post-test, the researcher analyzed the data by using an independent sample t-test. From the data analysis computed by using SPSS, it was obtained that Sig = 0.00 and α = 0.05. it means Ha is accepted because Sig < α= 0.05. Finally, there was effective of using fable text on students reading comprehension in the second semester of the ninth grade of SMPN 07 Bandar Lampung. Keywords: Narrative Text, Pre-Experimental Design, Fable Text, Reading Comprehensio