THE EFFECT OF STORY FRAMES STRATEGY TOWARD THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT STATE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 RAMBAH HILIR ROKAN HULU

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Based on the writer’s preliminary study, it was found that the students could
not comprehend the meaning of the text in their text book at the school. This problem
was caused by some factors. For example, some of the students had difficulties in
finding main idea from the reading text and had difficulties to analyze the reading
text. So, the writer was interested in carrying out the research about this problem.
The objectives of this research were to find out students’ reading
comprehension by using conventional strategy, to find out students’ reading
comprehension by using Story Frames strategy, and to obtain the significant effect of
using Story Frames strategy toward students’ reading comprehension.
The type research was quasi-experimental research. The design based on
pretests, posttests, and use of a control group was employed in this research. The
subject of this research was the second year students at SMP N 1 Rambah Hilir
Rokan Hulu. The object of this research was the effect of using Story Frames
strategy. The population of this research was all of the second year students in the
academic year of 2011/ 2012. The sample was chosen through quota sampling. One
class was nominated as the experimental group and another one was the control
group.
To analyze the data, the researcher used Independent t-test formula. The result
of data analysis was that T
o
was higher than t
table
. In other word, there is a significant
effect of using Story Frames strategy toward threading comprehension of the second
year students a second year students’ reading comprehension at SMP N 1 Rambah
Hilir Rokan Hulu. Therefore, it can be concluded that students’ reading
comprehension taught by using Story Frames strategy was better than students’
reading comprehension taught by using conventional strategy.

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