THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STORY MAPPING TECHNIQUE TOWARD STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS AT SMPN 2 SUMBERGEMPOL IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016

Dwi Yunika, Reny. Registered Student. 2813123127. 2016. The Effectiveness of Story Mapping Technique toward Students’ Reading Comprehension of The Eight Grade Students at SMPN 2 Sumbergempol in Academic Year 2015/2016. Thesis. English Education Program. Institute Islamic Collage (IAIN) Tulungagung. Advisor: Dr. Erna Iftanti, SS. M.Pd. Keywords : Effectiveness, Story Mapping Technique, Reading Comprehension Reading is one of skill in English that has the important role in teaching and learning English. From reading, people can get the information and knowledge from text. Thus, to get many informations and knowledge, students do not just read the text but they have to comprehend the text. Sometimes, to read the text the students find out some difficulties, like they feel bored. Therefore, the students do not like reading, they just read the text without knowing the content of the text. So, it is significant for the researcher to know the effectiveness of Story Mapping technique as proved to be effectively used toward the students reading comprehension. The use of Story Mapping will make students become like reading activity, comprehend the content of the text. Based on the explanation above, the researcher is interested to find out the effect of treatment by Story Mapping technique toward students’ reading comprehension of the eight grade at SMPN 2 Sumbergempol in academic year 2015/2016. The problem proposed in this study is : Is Story Mapping effective toward students’ reading comprehension of the eight grade students at SMPN 2 Sumbergempol in academic year 2015/2016? The purpose of the study is intended to know the effectiveness of Story Mapping technique toward students’ reading comprehension of the eight grade students at SMPN 2 Sumbergempol in academic year 2015/2016. Research method : 1) the research uses pre-experimental design using quantitative approach with one group pre-test and post-test. 2) The population of this study was all students of are all of eight grade students of SMPN 2 Sumbergempol which consist of eight class (A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H) the sample was VIII D class consisting of 20 students. 4) The research instrument used is a test. 5) The data analysis was using T test. The result showed that the student’s mean score in teaching reading before getting treatment is 71.10. While the student’s score after getting treatment is 82.60. ”. At the significance level of 0.05, the score of ttable is 2.093. By comparing the “t” that the researcher has got calculation tcount is 5.205 and the value of “t” on the ttable in significant level 0.05 is 2.093. It is known that tcount is bigger than ttable (5.205 > 2.093). Because the tcount is bigger than ttable the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected, it means that there is any significant difference on reading comprehension score before and after being taught by using Story Mapping technique. The conclussion is Story Mapping technique is effective toward students’ reading comprehension of the eight grade students at SMPN 2 Sumbergempol