The Effectivenss of Using Short Stories in Teenager’s Magazine Toward the Student’s Reading Comprehension Ability in Narrative Text at SMP Negeri 1 Boyolangu Academic Year 2013/2014

Keywords: Effectiveness, Short Stories, Reading Comprehension, Narrative Text. The use of media plays an important role in English learning because it can be used to attract the student’s attention and increase the student’s motivation in learning English especially in reading. In this research, the researcher tries to find out the effectiveness of using media “short stories” toward the students’ ability in reading narrative text at the second year students’ of SMP Negeri 1 Boyolangu. By using media “Short Stories”. The students are expected to be able to comprehend reading text. The formulation of the research problem were: 1) How are the second year’s students of SMPN 1 Boyolangu achievement on reading before they were taught using short stories in teenager’s magazine in improve the student’s reading comprehension on narrative text?, 2) How are the achievement of the second year students of SMPN 1 Boyolangu in reading after they were taught short stories in teenager’s magazine in improving students reading comprehension on narrative text, 3) Is there any significant effect of short stories in reading before and after being taught by using short stories in teenagers’ magazine in improving students reading comprehension on narrative text of SMPN 1 Boyolangu? The purpose of this study were to: 1) To know the students’ achievement on reading before they are taught short stories in teenager’s magazine in improving students reading comprehension on narrative text, 2) To know the students’ achievement in reading after they are taught short stories in teenager’s magazine in improving students reading comprehension on narrative text, 3) To know there is any significant different of students’ achievement on reading before they are taught short stories in teenager’s magazine in improving students reading comprehension on narrative text and after they are taught reading comprehension. Research method: 1) the research design in this study was experimental design with one-group pretest-posttest design, 2) the population of this study was all of second year student’s of SMP Negeri 1 Boyolangu in Academic Year 2013/2014, 3) the sample was VIII A class. Consisting of 29 students, 4) the research instrument was test, validity test by using content validity, while reliability test used cronbach’s alpha, 5) the data analysis was using SPSS program 16.0 version. Because the research design used experimental research and the data in the form of numeric data, so the researcher used SPSS analyze the data. The result showed that the student’s score in reading narrative text before they are taught using short stories in teenager’s magazine was 65.5. While the student’s score after they are taught using teenager’s magazine was 82.4. The Tcount was 14.384, whereas Ttable with significant level 5% was 2.048. So, Tcount was greater than Ttable. This means that Ha which states that there is significant effect in using short stories in teenager’s magazine to teach reading narrative text to VIIIA graders at SMP Negeri 1 Boyolangu is accepted. Whereas, Ho which states that there is no significant effect of using short stories in teenager’s magazine to teach reading narrative text to VIIIA graders at SMP Negeri 1 Boyolangu is rejected. In other words, short stories in teenager’s magazine can be used as an alternative to teach reading narrative to the students at SMP level