THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING STORY PYRAMID STRATEGY IN TEACHING NARRATIVE TEXT TOWARD THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMPN 1 SUMBERGEMPOL TULUNGAGUNG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015

ABSTRACT Ningsih, Dwi Kartini. Student, Registered Number. 3213113065. 2015. The Effectiveness of Using Story Pyramid Strategy in Teaching Narrative Text toward The Students’ Reading Comprehension at the Eight Grade of SMPN 1 Sumbergempol Tulungagung in the Academic Year 2014/2015. Sarjana Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Ida Isnawati M.Pd. Keywords: Effectiveness, Story Pyramid Strategy, Reading Comprehension. There are problems faced by students in reading. Students are frustrated and bored when they do not understand what they are reading. The interesting strategy is needed to teach them. The researcher is interested to find out the effects of treatment with Story Pyramid Strategy in teaching reading comprehension. The research problems are: 1)“How is students’ reading comprehension in narrative text when they are taught without using story pyramid strategy?”. 2) “How is students’ reading comprehension in narrative text when they are taught by using story pyramid strategy?”. 3) “Is there any significant different achievement on students’ reading comprehension in narrative text when they are taught by using story pyramid strategy and those are taught without using story pyramid strategy?”. The research objectives are: 1) to know the students’ reading comprehension in narrative text when they are taught without using the story pyramid strategy. 2) To know the students’ reading comprehension in narrative text when they are taught using story pyramid strategy. 3) To find out whether there is any significant different achievement of students’ reading comprehension in narrative text when they are taught by using story pyramid strategy and those are taught without using story pyramid strategy. This research used quasi experimental research with quantitative approach. The population was all the students of the eighth grade that consist of 380 students. The researcher took of the eighth grade B and E class as the sample. The instrument of this research used test reading (pre-test and post-test). Data analysis of this research was using Independent Samples T test with SPSS 16.0. The result of computation, tcount was (3.024) and ttable was (2.001). By comparing the “t” was tcount > ttable known that (3.024 > 2.001). The significant value is 0.004 < 0.05. Based on the result above, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) that state is significant difference of students’ reading comprehension by using story pyramid strategy is accepted, while the null hypothesis (Ho) that states there is no significant difference of students’ reading comprehension by using story pyramid strategy is rejected. Finally, it can be concluded that story pyramid strategy is effective to teach reading comprehension especially narrative text for the eighth grade of SMPN 1 Sumbergempol Tulungagung in the academic year 2014/2015