Abstract
The title of this research is Using Short Story to Improve Students' Reading Comprehension At the Second Year Students Of SMPN 2 Kota Bengkulu. The objective of this research was to know the differences in students score and also to know whether the students interest was improved or not, after did a treatment using short story and handbook. The instrument of these research was questionnaire. The result from short story was satisfactory. The mean score from pre-test was 45.1 for experimental class and 45.25 for control class. The differences both of class was 0.15 point. While the result of post-test was 55.9 for the experimental class and 51.8 for the control class. The differences in both classes was 4.1. tt can be concluded that the experiment was succesful. The explanation above shows that the differences in improving students' score and interest by giving the treatment, and the differences score between two classes are significant. It means that reading activity by using short story could improve students reading comprehension in class I of SMPN 2 Kota Bengkulu.
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