Teaching Reading Narrative Text Research Articles

MAKING STUDENTS COMPREHEND NARRATIVE TEXT WITH RETELLING STRATEGY

This paper reveals an alternative model for teaching reading narrative text using retelling strategy. Retelling is a diagnostic technique teachers use to monitor whether students are aware of text structures and if they are using this knowledge before, during, and after they read.. After reading a variety of texts, students begin to notice different ways information is presented and different patterns authors use when they write. They also recognize that the authors use different patterns to organize information. In every narrative text, there are characters, problems, a potential solution, and a final resolution. Effective readers are aware of the text structures authors use and apply this knowledge to predict what the author will write. They can also use their knowledge of the text structure of narrative to help them remember important details and to make sense of the story as they read. Keywords: retelling, narrative texts, strategy, reading comprehension

THE EFFECT OF USING RECIPROCAL TEACHING METHOD ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING COMPREHENSION

This study deals with the effect of Reciprocal Teaching Method on Students’ Achievement on Reading Comprehension on narrative text. The population of the study was the 2015/2016 academic year second semester grade XI students of SMA Negri 1 Paranginan Humbang Hasundutan. The samples were two classes, namely XI IPA 1 and XI IPA 2, with the total was 60 students selected by applying random sampling. The sample was divided into two groups. Experimental group (XI IPA 1) was taught by applying Reciprocal Teaching Method while the control group (XI IPA 2) was taught without applyingReciprocal Teaching Method. The data of this research were taken from the students’ score of reading narrative text test. The calculation showed that the coefficient of the test was 0.64, it showed that the test was reliable and the reliability was substantial. There were two data used in this research. They were pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula to show the effect of applying Reciprocal Teaching Method on students’ achievement in reading narrative text. After analyzing the data, the finding indicates that t-observed was higher than t-table (4,00 > 2.00) at the level of significance 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 58. It means that applying Reciprocal Teaching Method has significantly affected on the students’ achievement in reading narrative text. It implies that Reciprocal Teaching Method is a significant technique for teaching reading narrative text.