1. to find out whether there is any significant difference of student’s reading
comprehension achievement between the students who are taught through retelling story and those who are taught through translation from folk tale.
2. to find out which technique is more effective for teaching reading.
1.6 Significances of the Research
The findings of the research may be beneficial not only theoretically but also practically:
1. Theoretically, the results of the research are expected to support previous
theories dealing with retelling story and translation. 2.
Practically, the finding of this research may give information to the English teacher that one of the two ways in this research is more effective in
improving the student’s achievement in reading comprehension.
1.7 Scope of the Research
This research was conducted to increase the students’ reading comprehension of
first grade of Senior High School students. The techniques applied in this research were retelling story technique in experimental class and translation in
control class. There were two classes as a sample selected using simple random sampling. The class was selected randomly by using lottery, since the first year
students in SMAN 1 Gunung Sugih was not stratified class. The researcher focused on folk tale. The materials are taken from English Book based on the
School Based Curriculum KTSP of SMA. To find out the improvement of
students’ reading comprehension, the researcher measured the score of a set of pre-test and post-test.
1.8 Definition of Term
1. Reading comprehension is an activity of understanding printed text through making sense a written text by relating written language to what we know
and what we want to know. 2. Retelling story is requires the students to think more conceptually, to look
at the bigger picture rather than answering specific question about the text Karen : 2001.
3 . Translation is changing a communication a word, phrase, and sentence to other terms or to another form verbal or symbolic or to another level
abstraction simple or more complex Garrow : 1972 4. Folktale is a very old traditional story from a particular place that was
originally passed on to people in a spoken form. 5. Achievement in this research is the change
or improvement of student’s reading comprehension after being taught in form of score.
II. FRAME OF THEORIES
