taken from some books of English for eighth grade which are English in Focus, Scaffolding, Interactive English, and Cakrawala.
1. Conceptual Definition
Narration generally means any kind of explaining or telling of something. Narration is the act of telling a story, usually in some kind of chronological order
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Narrative is a text that tells a story to entertain the audience which contains a series of events which are presented chronologically. Narrative can be presented
as written or spoken texts.
2. Operational Definition
The scores which obtained by the students on answering the test related to narrative text, consist of: 1 finding the main idea, 2 finding the specific
information of the text, 3 finding the inference or conclusion of the text, 4 finding the communicative purpose of the text, 5 finding the generic structure of
the text, 6 finding difficult words in the text, and 7 finding reference words in the text. The test was designed with multiple choices items in the number of 25
multiple choice questions with options A, B, C, and D. It meant there was one correct answer, while the others were distraction. The score was 1 for each correct
item and 0 for each incorrect item, so students’ total correct answer would be multiplied by 4 to get a perfect score, a hundred. The blue print of the instrument
could be seen on the appendices Before administering the test in the actual class, the researcher firstly did a
pilot study in order to check the validity and reliability of the instrument. It applied out of both experimental and control class but still at the same grade or
have a same English level. In this case, the researcher conducted a pilot study twice at the same school but in different class, 8C to test post-test and 8D to test
pre-test. The instrument of the validity and reliability test was also in the form of reading comprehension of narrative text consisted of 30 multiple choice questions.
Anates for multiple choices application was used to measure the validity and reliability of the data. The result of pilot study was used to revise the
instrument and made it able to administer in the actual research classes. From the validity test of pre-test, there were 24 valid questions from 30 and from the
validity test of post-test, there were 26 valid questions from 30 questions which were gained. Based on the standard of reliability test, 0.4-0.59 means the
reliability of the test was medium, meanwhile 0.6-0.79 means the reliability of the test was strong, and 0.8-1.0 means the reliability of the test was very strong. In
this research, the score of reliability test of pre-test was 0.8 which means that the reliability of pre-test was very strong, meanwhile the score of reliability test of
post-test was 0.66 which means the reliability of post-test was strong.
E. Data Collection Technique
Technique of collecting data in this research was pretest and posttest that was given to both experimental class and control class. In this research, the
researcher gave pre- test to see students’ basic capability in reading before using
Question Generation Strategy in reading class. The next test was post-test which measured
the difference of the students’ score between the experimental class and control class after given the treatment.
F. Data Analysis Technique
The researcher used statistical calculation to find out the differences between students’ score in experimental class 8B which was taught using
Question Generation Strategy with students’ score in control class 8A which
was taught using silent reading method. In this research, there are four tests which were calculated; normality test and homogeneity test, hypothesis test, and effect
size test.
1. Normality Test
Normality test was done in both classes; the experiment class and control class. Normality Test was used to know whether the data from the sample group
which was examined comes from the population of normal distribution or not. The normality test was calculated using Kolmogorov-Smirnov technique with
requirement as follows: - If the significance scores of Asyim Sig 2 tailed 0.05, the data came
from the normal population
