THE INFLUENCE OF RETELLING STORY TECHNIQUE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY IN NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMP NEGERI 1 BANGUNREJO IN 2021/2022

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the influence of retelling story technique towards students’ reading ability in narrative text. The problems in this research are the students faced difficulties in learning reading; the students faced difficulties to understand words in English text; the students have limited of vocabulary. The objective of this research is to know and describe whether there is or there is no influence of retelling story technique towards students’ reading ability in narrative text; to know the average score of students’ reading ability is taught through retelling story technique is higher than taught through direct instruction. The writer used Retelling story technique. This technique can help students to understand words in English Text and improve reading ability. In this research the writer used quasi experimental method. The sample of the research took two classes which were taken by using cluster random sampling. The population of the research was 223 students from 7 classes. The first class was experimental class and the second class was control class. In data collecting technique it is used test. The main technique to measure students’ reading ability in narrative text was multiple choices which consisted of 30 items test. Each item has five options A, B, C and D, the score each item was 3.3. The result in calculating of the data, the writer used t-test formula and got the result that was accepted. It was obtained that = 3.96,  for α= 0.05 was 1.67 and for α= 0.01 was 2.39 (3.84 ≥ 1.67 ≤ 2.39). So,  was accepted. It means that retelling story technique has significant influence towards students’ reading ability in narrative text.