the text and by using story mapping, students not only use their imagination but also use their concentration to connect one element to another element of story
mapping. Therefore, it will make students more understand in narrative text. In reading, a reader‘s purpose is one of the important factors that influence
the comprehension. Narrative text and story mapping can also help readers to set their purpose to get better comprehension. According to its definition, a narrative
text consists of some important elements such as title, characters, settings, main events, problemsconflicts, and solutions. By the help of story mapping, the readers
can also identify those elements one by one and then they combine them into the same story in their version. It means that the reader has set their purpose in reading.
They know what they have to look for in the text and what they should do with the story mapping. Moreover, if students can combine those elements in the story
mapping and create the same story in their version, it means that they understand and comprehend what they have read.
At the end of activity, the students are expected to have better comprehension and strengthen their memories about text from visualizing through
story mapping.
F. Research Hypothesis
The hypothesis of this research can be seen as follows: Null Hypothesis Ho: there is no significant difference between students’
achievement in reading comprehension of narrative text by using story mapping and without using story mapping.
Alternative Hypoth esis Ha: there is a significant difference between students’
achievement in reading comprehension of narrative text by using story mapping and without using story mapping.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Place and Time
This research is conducted at the 8
th
grade students of 127 Junior High School. The place is located at
Jl. Kb. Jeruk Raya, RT 10 RW 05, Kb. Jeruk, Kota Jakarta Barat, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta 11530. T
he research is held in Oktober to November 2016.
B. Method and Research Design
The method of this research is quantitative method. It is often about calculation and analysis of the numerical data. Meanwhile, the design used is a
quasi-experimental design. The design is used to examine cause and effect of using story mapping technique on students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. In
this research, it compares experimental class where story mapping technique is applied in learning of narrative text class and controlled class where story
mapping technique is not applied in learning of narrative text class. The effectiveness can be seen by comparing improvement of students’ score of
experiment class and controlled class of post-test after they have been given treatments by the writer.
C. Population and Sample
The population of this study is the eighth grade students of 127 Junior High School consisting of 7 classes. The sample of this research is 2 classes of 8
th
grade students which are VIII F as experiment class consisting of 35 students and VIII G
consisting of 35 students as controlled class. The technique of determining sample in this study is purposive sampling
technique. The consideration used to choose this sampling is teacher suggestion of the homogeny o
f students’ score in English.
