Following the Plot of the Story

54 It helped me mostly in catching… names of characters and places. However, one out of five students added that she was also helped to catch the detail of some reasons for actions happened in the story. She mentioned: Kemudian membantu mengerti jalan ceritanya, nama-nama tokohnya, tempat, terus mengapa si tokoh berbuat sesuatu. Krakatau, Interview Then, it helped me to understand the plot of the story, name of characters and places, and also why the character does something. Furthermore, students’ achievement in doing the task given by the teacher related to their ability in answering question about the detailed information from the story is presented in the table 4.2. Table 4.2 Indicators Achievement Result No. Indicators Reading Text Observed Not Observed Poor Fair Good Very Good Snow White 100 - - - - 100 Rapunzel 100 - - - - 100 1. The students are able to answer questions related to the name of characters in the story Sleeping Beauty 87,5 12,5 - - 75 12,5 Snow White 100 - - - 12,5 87,5 Rapunzel 100 - - - 37,5 62,5 2. The students are able to catch specific information related to the name of places in the story Sleeping Beauty 87,5 12,5 - - - 87,5 Snow White 100 - - - 37,5 62,5 3. The students are able to catch specific information related to the Rapunzel 100 - 25 - 25 50 to be continued to the next page … PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 55 from the previous page … time mentioned in the story Sleeping Beauty 62,5 37,5 - - - 62,5 Snow White 100 - - - - 100 Rapunzel 100 - - - 50 50 4. The students are able to catch specific information of the reason of some actions happened in the story Sleeping Beauty 50 50 12,5 - 12,5 25 Snow White 100 - - 12,5 37,5 50 Rapunzel 100 - - 62,5 37,5 - 5. The students are able to understand the main idea of the story Sleeping Beauty 100 - 12,5 75 12,5 - Snow White 100 - 12,5 12,5 25 50 Rapunzel 100 - 37,5 12,5 37,5 12,5 6. The students are able to retell the they have listened in the right sequence Sleeping Beauty 75 25 25 25 - 25 From the table 4.2, it can be seen that the students caught the detailed information of the story of Snow White successfully. If it was compared to other two stories, i.e. Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty, Snow White obtained the highest percentage in all details. All students observed in the study were able to answer questions related to the name of characters, places, as well as reasons for some actions happened in the story since they had read the text. This fact revealed that reading text helped the students to catch the detailed information in listening section which were also needed to answer the comprehension questions. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 56 Related to the information of name of places mentioned in the story, it was found that most students 87,5 were able to catch them and answer the questions completely related to the story of Snow White. The percentage of students who were able to answer the questions related to the name of places in the story completely was decreased 25 when they had to listen to the story of Rapunzel. There were only 62,5 of students answered the question perfectly. One student shared her experience related to her ability to grab the information by listening to the recordings only. In the interview she explained: Kalau nama tokoh bisa, tapi kalau jalan ceritanya ya sedikit-sedikit mbak, kalau nama tempat dan waktu nggak bisa sama sekali aku kalau dari listening tok. Bukit Siguntang, Interview I could catch the name of characters, but if the plot of the story I just could follow it a little bit. I did not also catch the name of places and time from the listening section only. From the way students answered the questions, it was obvious that they were able to understand the main idea of the story of Snow White. However, four students 50 understood the story best, 25 of students understood the story well, while another participant 12,5 fairly understood the story and the rest 12,5 of students were poorly. However, the percentage of the students who fairly understood the story was increased 14 to 62,5, related to the story of Rapunzel. Even worse, most of the students 75 understood the story of Sleeping Beauty fairly. Students’ ability to understand the main idea of the story, in fact, affected their ability in retelling the story sequently. The percentage of the students who retold the story of Snow White in detail and in the right sequence was 50. Surprisingly, 57 one of them shared that she could remember the story with the help of reading text. In the interview she shared that: Dari reading text dan listening, tapi banyak dari reading text karena kalau dari mendengarkan saja belum tahu vocabnya. Merapi, Interview From both, reading text and listening section, but mostly from the reading text because from the listening section only I did not understand the vocabulary. Therefore, by first constructing students’ prior knowledge using reading text before listening to the recording, students’ ability to follow or understand and remember the detail of the story was better.

c. Answering Comprehensive Questions

Furthermore, the text offered another significant influence related to their better comprehension. The text also helped the students to answer the comprehension questions related to the recording. After the students were able to follow the story well and to grab the detailed information, they were also directly able to answer the questions well. From the questionnaire, it was obviously observed that students’ answers to the questions in listening section were not pure from what they had listened only, but also from what they had read before listening. Table 4.3 presents the result of students’ answers from the questionnaire.