TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION TO THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 12 PALEMBANG BY USING STORY PYRAMID
Abstract: The aim of this
study was to find out whether or not there is a significant difference on
students’ reading comprehension achievement taught using story pyramid strategy than those who
are taught using teachers’ method strategy. The study used quasi-experimental
design using nonequivalent pretest posttest design. The investigation of
population of this study was all of the eighth grade student of SMPN 12 Palembang in the academic year
2013/2014, which consist of 80 students coming from two classes. The sample of
this study were class VIII.2 consisting of 40 students was treated as
experimental group and VIII.1 consisting of 40 students was treated as control
group, which selected using convenience sampling. This study was conducted for
about one month. In finding a significant difference of students’ reading
comprehension average score from pretest to posttest taught using Story Pyramid
Strategy, the writer conducted using Independent Sample T-Test. The data was
collected in form of pretest and posttest of students reading comprehension
scores. Then, it was analyzed using independent sample t-test to meet the
objective of the study. From the result analysis, it was found that there was a
significant difference in posttest score on the students’ reading comprehension
achievement taught using story pyramid strategy since the p-output was lower
than 0.05.
Author: Mawadda
Journal Code: jppendidikangg150171
