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technology supports the education field by providing such complete sources for comprehension activities.
There are so many ways to deliver our words. It began with listening when we were still just an infant, then speaking by repeating our parents said, in about
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we were learned to read, and then we were trained to write everything. There are many kinds of various texts that we have to know such as descriptive
text, procedure text, exposition text, argumentative text, persuasive texts, anecdote, and also the narrative text, that the writer chooses for the media of
measurement. Meyers 2005:53 states that narration is telling a story and a good
narration must have interesting content. Because of narrative is one of the most powerful ways to communicating with others, it lets the reader to respond and
understand some event in text. The action details and the dialogue put the readers in the scene and make it happen for them.
This paper deals with the relationship between reading, multimedia, and also the narrative. In fact, the three of terms has a good in a unity. Narrative is the
most appropriate text to discuss in the reading competencies in the senior high school students which is crystal clear the relation of both within multimedia
becomes the interest extrinsic motivation for the students to learn reading.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
This study deals with the students’ learning styles and their reading ability. There are several reasons why the topic is chosen, because it is important to
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introduce the term “Digital Story” to the students, to practice the implementing of the “Digital Story” it self should be made, the teacher should use the benefit of the
technology which is to use the “Digital Story”, in learning English, students must acquire the skill of reading, and it is important to know whether the use of
“Digital Story”, as one of strategies of learning English, is effective in improving the students’ reading skill or not.
1.3 Statement of the Problem
The research question in this study is: Is the use of “Digital Story”, as a strategy of learning English, effective in improving the students’ narrative reading skill?
1.4 Objectives of the Study
The objective of the study is to conduct an experiment whether the use of “Digital Story”, as a strategy of learning English, is effective in improving the students’
narrative reading skill or not.
1.5 Significance of the Study
Here are the significances of the studies; Practical, from the finding of the study, it is expected that the teacher should be open minded with the technology, such as
the properties to carry out this strategy of teaching reading. Theoretical; the finding of the study can be used to develop the
implementation of this kind of strategy to teach reading.
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1.6 Outline of the Study
Chapter I talked about the introduction that consists of background of the study, reason for choosing the topic, statement of the problems, objectives of the study,
significance of the study, and outline of the study. The next chapter deals with the review of related literature or the
underlying theories that discusses English in senior high school curriculum, the general concept of reading, the objectives of reading, the general concept of a text,
Narrative, the technology, the media, the digital story, learning narrative using conventional method, and learning narrative using digital story.
The Third chapter explains main source of the data, the research design, subject of the study, variables, the instrument, and the method of data collections.
Then, chapter IV discusses try out findings, data of the pretest and the posttest, normality and homogeneity, computation between two means, analyzing
the t-test, and the pretest and posttest findings. Finally, the last chapter presents conclusion and recommendation.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
