teacher asks the students to read narrative text using story mapping technique which has been explained by the teacher.
Commonly, the current research of the topic is to analyze testing, method of teaching, and reading approach. This research tries to analyze the result of
story mapping for developing students’ reading skill of narrative text. Here, the researcher tries to analyze the resultiveness of story mapping technique which is
applied in teaching-learning narrative text.
B. RESEARCH METHOD
In this study, researcher uses descriptive research. Descriptive research involves collection of technique used to specify, delineate, or describe naturally
occurring phenomena without experimental manipulation. Descriptive research is used to establish the existence of phenomena by explicitly describing them. The
subject of this research is limited to the teacher and the second year students of SMP Muhammadiyah 6 Surakarta in 20142015 academic year. The object of
this research is the result of using technique of story mapping technique in reading skill of narrative text at the second year at SMP Muhammadiyah 6
Surakarta in 20142015 academic year. The data of this research are all informations of activities of the students which researcher takes from field note
of the observation. There are three sources of the data, that are event, informant, and document. The researcher is using instruments of collecting data namely; 1
Observation, 2 Interview 1.
Observation Observation is method of collecting data using observation to the
subject of the research that is second year students and the English teacher of SMP Muhammadiyah 6 Surakarta in 20142015 academic year.
2. Interview
The researcher collected data by conducting interview. The researcher listed questions which the answer can be used to identify the
result of the research problem. The result is also to measure the students’
comprehension ability on English reading skill. The researcher analyzes the data using three steps of technique for
analyzing data namely; data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusion or verification.
1. Data Reduction
There are many data that have been collected, so the researcher needs to reduce the data to get the clearer image and to make it easier to be
analyzed. The step of data reduction is making note on the general meeting of the teaching learning process that is done by the teacher and learners.
2. Data Display
Narratively, the researcher displays the data, because it is easier to understand what happened and to plan the next work based on the
understanding things. After the data are displayed, the researcher tries to describe and discuss the finding of the researcher in the form of systematic
classification. 3.
Drawing Conclusion The researcher draws conclusion about the process and activity of
reading teaching-learning, and the story mapping technique which are applied by the teacher.
C. RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION
The findings are the procedure of teaching reading by using story mapping technique and the identification of the result of using story mapping in
teaching reading comprehension of narrative text to the second year students of SMP Muhammadiyah 6 Surakarta
