Teaching Reading Comprehension on Narrative Text
through Story Mapping (A Pre-Experimental Study to the Tenth
Grade Students of SMAN 1 Sungai Betung in the Academic Year of
2015/2016). This research is about teaching reading comprehension on narrative text through story
mapping to the tenth grade students of SMAN 1 Sungai Betung in the academic year of
2015/2016.The research questions of this research are formulated as “Is the use of story
mapping effective in teaching students’ reading comprehension on narrative text at tenth grade
student of SMAN 1 Sungai Betung in the academic year of 2015/2016? And how effective is the
use of story mapping in teaching students’ reading comprehension on narrative text at tenth
grade student of SMAN 1 Sungai Betung in the academic year of 2015/2016? To answer the
research questions, the researcher applied a pre-experimental study in order to investigate
whether or not the use of story mapping technique is effective in teaching students’ reading
comprehension on narrative text to the tenth grade of SMAN 1 Sungai Betung is effective or not,
and to find out how effective the use of story mapping technique is in teaching students’ reading
comprehension on narrative text to the tenth grade of SMAN 1 Sungai Betung.There were two
research variables concerned to be described; the dependent and independent variable. The
sample of this research was XA students of SMAN 1 Sunggai Betung in the academic year of
2015/2016 which consists of 25 students. The technique of data collecting was measurement
technique and the tool of data collecting was multiple choice tests.