Abstract :
Reading plays an important role for those who want to comprehend and produce
the language well. Reading is one of the most important ways to improve general
language skills. However, the students still have problems in reading. One of this
was that they often found difficulty in comprehending the reading text. They were
not able to catch the information from the text.
Therefore, the objective of this research is to compare whether there is difference
comprehension achievement between those who were taught through retelling a
fairy tale and those taught through translation.
The participants of the research were the students of the first grade of MA Ma’arif
4 Kalirejo, Lampung Tengah in the academic year 2011/2012. X.1 was the
experimental class and X.2 was the control class. Experimental class was taught
through retelling story and the control class was taught through translation. The
research design was Pretest Posttest Control Group Design and the data were
taken from the test and the data were analyzed by using Independent Group T-test.
Independent Group T-test was used at the 0,05 significance level to prove whether
or not the hypothesis was accepted. The computation showed that t- observe
(0.000)is lower than t-table (2.042). It means that H
1
was accepted. H
was there
is difference of students’ reading comprehension between students who are taught
through retelling story and students who are taught through translating technique
by using fairy tale.
Based on the result, it is suggested that English teachers to use retelling story from
fairy tale as the way to teach reading comprehension since it can be used to
encourage the students to be more creative in teaching learning process.