Improving Students’ Reading Skill of Narrative Text by Using Story Mapping Strategy: A Classroom Action Research at the Eighth Grade Students of SMP N 1 Undaan Kudus in the Academic Year 2011/2012

Permatasari, Intan (2012) Improving Students’ Reading Skill of Narrative Text by Using Story Mapping Strategy: A Classroom Action Research at the Eighth Grade Students of SMP N 1 Undaan Kudus in the Academic Year 2011/2012. Update Test thesis, Universitas Muria Kudus.

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Reading is one of four basic skills in English which is important because it is the basic to learn English, so it must be developed. In Junior High School curriculum, reading is one of the competence standards conducted to the students. But most of the students say that reading is difficult and many kind of texts must be learned by them. Narrative text is one kind of texts that must be learned by the students when they are studying English. It is a text that has purpose to entertain or amuse the reader or listener that contains for three basic generic structure. It is difficult enough for students, especially for the eighth grade students. Story mapping strategy is useful strategy for the students to understand text easily. This strategy uses visual representations to help students organize important elements of a story by identifying story characters, plot, setting, problem and solution. The objective of the research is to improve the students’ skill in reading narrative text by using story mapping strategy of the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Undaan Kudus in academic year 2011/2012. The approach that is used in this research is Classroom Action Research (CAR). It is one of kind of research that is done by teacher in the class. It consist of four stages. These are planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The subject of the research is the eighth grade students of 8C class of SMP N 1 Undaan Kudus in academic year 2011/2012. After doing three cycles in teaching reading, there are improvement in each cycle in students’ skill in reading narrative text. The result of reading skill is in cycle 1 is 65.89%, in cycle 2 is 76.28%. The improvement score also happened in cycle 3 is 81.82%. The result of the students’ achievement from cycle 1 to cycle 2 increase 10.39% and cycle 2 to cycle 3 increase 5.54%. Besides the score, the students’s activeness also increases in cycle 2 and in cycle 3, the students show that they are more active, interested and understand about the material clearly, so the research can be stopped. Based on the result of this research, the writer concludes that story mapping strategy can improve students’s skill in reading narrative text of the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Undaan Kudus in academic year 2011/2012. Therefore, the writer suggests the teacher to use story mapping strategy for teaching reading narrative text.

Item Type: Skripsi/ Thesis (Update Test)
Dosen Pembimbing: Advisors: (i) Mutohhar, S.Pd, M.Pd. (ii) Drs. Suprihadi, M.Pd.
Kata Kunci: Reading, Narrative text, Story mapping strategy.
Subjects: Bahasa dan sastra > Bahasa Inggris
Program Studi: Fakultas Keguruan & Ilmu Pendidikan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Users 1245 not found.
Date Deposited: 19 Mar 2013 05:38
Last Modified: 19 Mar 2013 05:38
URI: http://eprints.umk.ac.id/id/eprint/1067

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