| dc.description.abstract | Bima is one of the region located at West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. This tribe has many
well-known folk stories between their people that can be considered as learning materials to
teach reading comprehension in EFL class. Folktales can be one of the best choices of literary
work for teaching reading comprehension, because folktales are acknowledged familiar in which
students already have the spoken language of them from the parents or the grandparents rather
than the written language. The previous studies showed that folktales is effective to teach
reading comprehension, it enhance reading comprehension achievement of students. However,
how effective Bima folktales as learning materials to teach reading comprehension especially at
the level senior high school’s students should be investigated because there is no study about it
before.
Being designed in true experimental with post-test only control group, the objective of this
study is to find out whether using of Bima folktales as learning materials is effective or not to
teach reading comprehension on high school‘s students. These two groups were proved on the
same level of reading comprehension ability by the scores of mid-term test. It is conducted on
tenth grade students of IPA at SMA Negeri 2 which consists of 62 students who were able to
participate. They were divided into 31 students as experimental group and 31 students as control
group. In this study, the experimental group was given post-test after treatment finished and the
control group also did post-test without the treatment. To achieve the purpose of this study, the
post-tests scores then being analyzed using independent t-test in SPSS 20.0 version for
windows.
Based on independent t-test in SPSS 20.0 version for windows calculation, it was proved
that the significant values of variances assumed was .097. It is indicated that the students’
reading comprehension achievement of experimental group and control group were
homogenous. Meanwhile, sig. (2-tailed) value was .005 which less than .050 and it means that
the H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. Therefore, students of experimental group were proved
have better achievement than the control group. It can be concluded that using Bima folktales is
affective to teaching reading comprehension skill on tenth grade students of IPA at SMA Negeri
2.
Suggestions purposed for further researchers to conduct the study with the related topic
by providing more learning materials about Bima folktales. Because the time limited during
Covid-19, the next researcher also could add more times for treatments, choosing more samples
and preparing the test items more than the available items in order to have back up items if there
are many difficulty items than the moderate items or if there are items deleted | en_US |
