STORYTELLING AS A STUDENTS’ READING NARRATIVEudACHIEVEMENT PARAMETER OF SECOND GRADEudSTUDENTS AT SMPN 14 KOTA CIREBON: A QUALITATIVEudRESEARCH

摘要

MASYITHOH PUTRI: STORYTELLING AS A STUDENTS’ READINGudNARRATIVE ACHIEVEMENT PARAMETER OFudSECOND GRADE STUDENTS AT SMPN 14 KOTAudCIREBON: A QUALITATIVE RESEARCHudReading is one of four important skills which should be mastered by Englishudlearners. Commonly, teaching reading comprehension will be evaluated byudquestioning, this technique cannot promise whether the students understand or notudabout the text. Relating to this issue, in this thesis, the researcher puts the storytellingudtechnique as a method to determine the product of students’ reading comprehension.udReading is a complex activity including both of perception and thought. It isudalso consisting of two related processes, word recognition and comprehension, while,udassessment is one of stages in teaching which is used to provide feedback andudmeasure progress. And, Storytelling is an activity which requires the integration ofudmany skills that are part of the comprehension process, such as understanding,udremembering, and sequencing the events and major concepts presented in text.udThis research is classified into a descriptive qualitative method because it wasuddesigned to observe the phenomenon include surveys and fact-finding enquiries ofuddifferent kinds. The primary goal of this research is to know the implementation andudthe contribution of storytelling in assessing students’ reading comprehension. It isudalso used to find out the problems of using this technique. The participants are the 2ndudgrade students at SMPN 14 Kota Cirebon, it takes a month for doing this research.udThe researcher used observation and questionnaire for collecting data, interviews anduddocument analysis of students’ score used as triangulation of the data resulted.udAs results of this research, storytelling is an easy assessment which can beudimplemented. The problems found are the need of time consuming is longer thanudcommon technique, other problems are psychological factors such as interest andudself-motivation. It gives contributions for students in understanding a narrativeudreading text. Storytelling motivates students to read and understand the text in whole,udit is also make them struggling in reading.udFinally, the researcher concludes that using other techniques like storytellingudto measure students’ comprehension is good enough. The researcher expects thisudresearch will be able to help the next researcher who conducts the research in theudsame field. Moreover, the research’s product is expected to be useful for developingudtechnique of assessing reading comprehension.