The Effectiveness of Storytelling of Reading Comprehension of Eleventh Grade Students MA Bilingual Batu

Abstract

Reading is a fundamental skill to access information, as it allows the reader to access information worldwide. However for EFL students, reading in foreign language is not easy, and most information worldwide are written in English. Therefore, good teaching method in reading is necessary to enhance students’ reading comprehension. In this study, teaching method used to investigate is storytelling as it promotes students' reading comprehension, it is considered to be an effective method to develop the aspects of cognitive, affective, social, and appreciation in learners. Therefore, the researcher is of interested in conducting research about the effectiveness of storytelling method to improve reading comprehension. This study used experimental research design to measure the difference between experimental group who receive treatment and control group who receive conventional method. The data for this research collected in the form of pretest and posttest score from 56 students from the 11th grade students of MA Bilingual Batu. The data are analysed using SPSS version 24 with independent sample t-test. The study concluded that the students from the control group were dominant in reading comprehension in terms of pre-test, but then outperformed in the post test by experimental group who received treatment using storytelling method. However, the result indicated no significant difference between control and experimental group both in pretest and posttest as the significance level is more than 0.05. This indicated that storytelling might help the students to improve their reading comprehension. Keywords: Storytelling, Teaching Method, Reading Comprehension