The Effectiveness of Using Story Grammar Strategy in Teaching Reading of Narrative Text at the Eighth Grade Students of SMP N 23 Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

Reading is process of creating meaning. When students are reading English text, they are demanded to have adequate knowledge of the target language which has different system. Narrative text is considered as an interesting text. A story grammar is the system of rules used for describing the consistent feature found in narrative text. The objective of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of using story grammar strategy to teach reading narrative text at the eighth grade students of SMP N 23 Purworejo. The type of this research is quantitative pre-experimental research. The researcher takes 32 students as a sample of research. In collecting the data, researcher uses some steps: making instrument, validity testing, giving pre-test, conducting treatment, and giving post-test. While in analyzing the data, the researcher uses descriptive analysis and inferential analysis. The result of this research shows that using Story Grammar strategy is effective to improve students’ ability in reading. It can be seen from the mean score of pre-test 67.97 and the mean of post-test 73.91. It also shows that the tvalue is higher than t-table with df (32-1), it is (3.41>2.04). It means that using story grammar strategy in the teaching learning process gives a positive contribution towards the students’ skill in reading. The result of research finding proved that the Hypothesis of research (Ha) is accepted.