THE USE OF STORY MAPPING STRATEGY IN TEACHING READING AT THE EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 13 MATARAM IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019

The Story Mapping is the way of teaching where the students are thought to organize the story into specific parts, including the setting, problem, goal action and outcome. This strategy of this research is to encourage the students, based on it, the researcher focused to investigate whether the use of story mapping strategy has effect or not in teaching reading and to analyze the significant different between the students are taught using story mapping strategy and without using story mapping strategy in teaching reading at the eighth-grade students of SMPN 13 Mataram in academic year 2018/2019 as the second one. In this research, the researcher used quasi-experimental design with the total population of this research was 300 students. Cluster random sampling as a procedure of the sample was divided into two groups, they are 29 students in class B as an experimental, and 27 in class C as a control group. To analyze the data, the researcher used the SPSS program. The results of the data analysis shows that the average score of the experimental class was 75.85, and the average score of the control class was 66.67. From Paired Test that t-value was -11.867 with Sig. (2 Tailed) = 0,000 with level of significant [α=0,05]. Where the score of Sig. (2 Tailed) of paired test was smaller than 0,05, it means that the use of story mapping has effect, then from the Independent Test shows that score of t-value was 2.702. with sig. Sig. (2 Tailed) = 0,009 with level significant [α=0,05]. Where the score of Sig. (2 Tailed) of independent test was smaller than 0,05, so the alternate hypothesis which read that the use of story mapping is significant different in teaching reading at the eighth-grade of SMPN 13 Mataram is accepted. Therefore, the use of story mapping strategy has significant effect or Ha is accepted in teaching reading at the eighth-grade students of SMPN 13 Mataram in academic year 2018/2019. Keywords: Teaching reading, Narrative text, Story mappin