The Effect of Using Picture series in Narrative Text on Students Reading Comprehension

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the influence, consequences and causes of students reading comprehension using picture series in narrative text toward the eighth grade at MTs An-Nur Bululawang Malang. This study used a quantitative research design retrospective causal-comparative (ex post facto). The participant of this study were 40 students, the eighth grade students from class D and E. This study employs a random sampling technique for the sampling process. The instrument of this study was a test question it consist of a multiple choice test and a true false statement, there were 13 items of multiple choice and 5 items of true false. The story of the narrative text was adopted from an English story with the title “A Greedy Dog, Rox a Fox, The Rats and The Elephant, and The pig” by Joe Fatrah. To analyze the data, the researcher used Independent Sample T-test on the SPSS v.20. The findings reveal that there was a significant effect of using picture in narrative on students reading comprehension. this is evidenced by the existence of a significant difference in the average score of the two groups, the mean score of class D was 66.60 while the mean score of class E was 74.85. then the result of the sig (2-tailed) value showed that the ρ value 0.016 was lower than ɑ 0.05 (0.016 < 0.05). it can be concluded that H0 was rejected and Ha was accepted. It could be stated that the effect of using picture series in narrative text on students reading comprehension at MTs An-Nur Bululawang Malang was significantly influenced. Keyword: Picture Series, Narrative Text, Reading Comprehension