Applying Story Grammar Strategy Combined with Google Classroom as a Media in Teaching Reading at SMKN 3 Parepare

Abstract

Reading comprehension is such very essential to life. The readers who understand how a text is structured find greater success in identifying important information and relationships between ideas in the text. Based on the preliminary test (preobservastion) at SMK Negeri 3 Parepare, the collected data showed that students were not satisfied with their learning, in this case, the subject of reading. They were inactive students in the classroom, especially because they became lazier in reading any kind of text because the teacher used the silent reading method. The hardest part is when they cannot get the whole point of the text, likewise when they have a task or assignment from their teacher to answer. Therefore, the researchers found that the students’ had difficulty understanding the context and getting the information in the text. Story Grammar Strategy is a good way to improve students’ reading comprehension combined with google classroom as a media. By using this method, the researcher’s objectives are to help the students recognize the elements of narrative text and use these elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The data of the research are Pre Experiment of Quantitative Research. The design of this research is one group pre-test and post-test design with 34 total samples. The instrument of the research was a reading test using reading text. The reading texts were taken from the Step by Step Book. The total number of the test was 10 numbers, with 5 test items for true-false test and 5 test items for the essay test. The findings of the research showed that the story grammar strategy combined with google classroom successfully improved the students’ reading comprehension. As a fact, based on the findings, most students have a very good score on the post-test., which was 90,88. While the mean score of the pre-test was 44,55. It means that the treatment was successful in improving the student’s reading comprehension, and the students gave positive responses in the learning process.