THE INFLUENCE OF HUMOUR STORIES TOWARD STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE AT SMA NEGERI 6 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022

ABSTRACT THE INFLUENCE OF HUMOUR STORIES TOWARD STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION AT THE FIRST SEMESTEROF THE ELEVENTHGRADE AT SMA NEGERI 6 BANDAR LAMPUNGIN THE ACADEMICYEAR 2021/2022 By Siti Mubarokah The objective of this research was to know whether there was significant influence of using Humor Stories towards students‟ reading comprehension on spoof text. Reading is one of language skills that should be mastered by the students. In reading process the readers will find the knowledge and get information from printed text. The research methodology was quasi experimental design. In this research, the population was the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 6 Bandar Lampung which consisted of 117 students in 4 classes. The sample of this research was two classes which consisted of 59 students for experimental class and control class. The researcher used Guided Reading both in experimental and control class. The difference was about using humor stories in experimental class and without humor stories in control class. In collecting the data, the researcher used instrument in the form of multiple choice which consisted of 20 questions and the instrument had been tried out before the treatments. The instrument was given in pre-test and post�test. The researcher analyzed the data using SPSS to compute independent sample t-test. From the data analysis computed by using SPSS, it was obtained that Sig. = 0.012 and α = 0.05. It means Ha is accepted because Sig.< α = 0.012 < 0.05. Therefore, there was a significant influence of using Humor Stories towards students‟ reading comprehension spoof text at the first semester of the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 6 Bandar Lampung. Keywords : Guided Reading Strategy, Humor Stories, Reading Comprehension, Spoof Tex