The Effect of Using Short Story Technique Toward Reading Skills

Fatma Ayu Dwi Febriana, Nuri Ati Ningsih, Erlik Widiyani Styati

Abstract


The purpose of this research is to investigate whether the students who are employed by using short story have better reading skill than the students who are employed by using conventional teaching. This research method is quantitative and quasi-experimental design. The population in this research were eighth grade students at SMP N 1 Balerejo, especially grades VIII A and VIII C. Data collection in this study used a narrative text reading test in the form of multiple choice questions. Researchers used SPSS version 16 and Independent Sample T-test to analyze student scores. The results show that the use of the short story technique has an effect on students' reading ability. The reading score of the experimental class was proven to be higher, as evidenced by the mean score of 75.31 in the experimental class and 42.18 in the control class. The result that there is a significant difference in the reading skills of students who are treated with the short story technique and those who are treated with conventional teaching. Based on the explanation above, the use of the short story technique has an effective influence in teaching reading narrative texts.


Keywords


Teaching Reading; Narrative text; Technique; Short story

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