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D. Rationale
The problem which arises in the eighth grade of SMP N I Tasikmadu is the students have low comprehension in reading a text. It is shown by some indicators
as follows: students got difficulties to identify the setting of place and the setting of time in the narrative texts; the students got difficulties to catch the main idea of
each paragraph in the narrative texts; the students got difficulties to identify the generic structure of the narrative text.
From the classroom situation category, the researcher found some indicators dealing with the low level of the students’ reading comprehension of
narrative texts. The indicators are: the students were noisy in the teaching and learning TL of English in the classroom; the students tended to be passive
learners; and the students paid little attention toward their teacher’s explanation during TL activity.
Related to such problems the researcher intends to overcome the problems to improve students’ reading comprehension using picture- stories. Why picture-
stories? Based on the pre-research the researcher found that the students’ motivation in reading was low because when the students read the text in LKS
they did not understand the content of the text. Therefore, picture-stories is interesting media to improve the students’ reading comprehension.
The use of picture-stories can be suitable in teaching English for junior high school students. It makes the students more interested in learning narrative
texts. As known, the students have many difficulties when comprehending the texts, so picture-stories helps the students to comprehend the texts easily. The use
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of picture-stories makes the students enthusiastic in reading the narrative texts. It can be assumed that the use of picture-stories in teaching narrative texts can
improve the students’ reading comprehension.
E. Hypothesis
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