Table 3.1 Research Design
Group Pre-test
Treatment Post-test
Experiment T
X T
Control T
Y T
Notes: X: Taught by using video
Y: Taught by using Silent Reading Method T: Reading Comprehension test of Narrative Text
B. Time and Place of the Research
The study was held on the first semester at SMPN 1 Tambun Selatan. It is located on Jl. Pendidikan 2, Kec. Tambun Selatan, Kab. Bekasi. The study was
conducted on September —October 2016.
C. The Population and Samples of the Research
The population of the research is the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Tambun Selatan. The total class of eighth grade is 9 classes, 8A
—8I. Each class consisted of about 40 students, so the total population is 360 students. The writer
chose the eighth grade students as the sample because reading skill was crucial for them in the preparation of facing the National Examination in the third grade.
The sample that was used in this study is two classes of the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Tambun Selatan which the total is 80 students. The
researcher used purposive technique sampling to determine the sample. In this case, 8A and 8B are chosen as the control class ad experiment class because both
of them are handled by the same English teacher and those classes have similar competencies which can be appropriate to become the object of this research.
D. Instrument of the Research
Instrument of this research is Test. The test would be in the form of written test which consisted of 25 multiple choice questions made by the researcher and
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
.
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
