Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension in Narrative Text through Picture-Series at the Eight Grade Student of SMP Wahid Hasyim Dinoyo Malang

Abstract

The research aimed to find out whether there was improvement in students’ reading comprehension in narrative text after being taught by using picture series in the eight the grade of SMP Wahid Hasyim Dinoyo Malang. This class consisted of 28 students. This study was supported by Fitrianingsih (2013) that the students can have the benefits from picture series in order to improve their reading comprehension. Throughout the treatment, the students were allowed to follow because of the reference material that made it easier for them to comprehend the text. The objectives of this study are to know how can picture-series technique improves the students’ reading comprehension in narrative text. This is a Classroom Action Research (CAR) which was conducted in one cycle. Each cycle consisted of four steps: planning, action, observation and reflection. The data were collected from field notes and interview result. The tests consisted of pre-test and post-test, which were conducted before and after each cycle. The research analyzed the average score of each test to find out the improvements of students “reading comprehension in narrative texts after the action was conducted. The result of the research showeds that there was improvement of students’ reading comprehension after they were taught through picture series. There was an improvement on the students “average score of the text. This can be seen in the results of the students average score in pre-test 54,4. It increased to 78,5 in the post-test. This proved by the increasing of their score and behavior during the implementation of the method. It can be concluded that the teacher choose picture-series as the media facilitates the students’ to improve their comprehension in reading narrative text. From the above findings, it is expected the future researchers, it is suggested to conduct studies in the different object and used it as one of the references. Besides that, the use of picture series in narrative text can improve the reading comprehension, it makes students interested in the class activity and more understand the material. Key words: Reading Comprehension, Picture Series and Narrative Text