TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXT BY USING PARODY OF SHORT STORY

Abstract

Abstract

This research was conducted to figure out whether Parody of Short Story, as a substituting material, effective or not to teach narrative text reading. As this research was aimed to know how effective this substituting material to teach students"™ reading skill on Narrative text. The method used in this research was Pre-Experimental research. The population of this research was taken from the tenth-grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Pontianak and the sample of this research was taken from X IPS 3 class consisted of 35 students. The technique of data collection was measurement technique and the tools of data collection was objective test. The findings of this research shows that the use of parody of short story are able to make the students felt more encouraged and motivated, thus increasing their scores in reading the narrative text. The students"™ mean score of pre-test was 59,2 and the students"™ mean score of post-test was 78,8. It means that the students"™ mean score was increased by 19,6 points, proving that the use of short story parody in teaching reading on narrative text is quite effective. Using a t-list, the writer found the t-value (01,01) is lower than the t-table (2.030) with degree of freedom (df = N-1) at the level 5% (0.05), which means that the change of pre-test and post-test score is significant. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of parody of short story in teaching reading narrative text is effective.

Keywords: Narrative Text, Parody of Short Story, Pre-Experimental Research, Reading Skill, Substituting Material