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activities gradually increase from the first cycle into the second cycle. They became more familiar with the types of the question and knew how
to answer them in the cycle 2. They could solve the previous problem.
They became more motivate when teacher gave quiz and reward.
The improvement of students’ participation meant that the implementation of Story Mapping technique gave a good impact of their
participation during the teaching and learning process of reading narrative text. It successfully improved the students’ motivation because the
activities of Story Mapping technique could make the students interest to
involve in doing the activities.
2. Data of Questionnaire
The data of the pre questionnaire revealed that reading was one of the English skills that difficult to learn. The students had difficulty in term
of getting mind idea and detail information. Students also had difficulty in comprehending the text and understanding the message from the text.
Those problems made the students did not interest to read the text. However, after using Story Mapping technique in understanding narrative
text, the students gave positive responses to the action. Besides, Story Mapping technique could make the condition in the classroom more active
and made the students easier in understanding the text. It is because they can share their opinion about the text in group. They also could help each
other in solving their problem.
3. Data of Interview
The data from the pre interview with the English teacher indicated that the students’ ability in reading was poor because the students had
some difficulty in understanding the text, and the students’ participation in
the class was not too active. Consequently, it needed to do the innovation in teaching and learning of reading text. The writer tried to implement
Story Mapping technique in teaching reading text. After conducting the
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action, the English teacher gave positive responses toward the action. The English teacher felt satisfied to the students’ improvement in
understanding the text and also s tudents’ role in the classroom.
