Abstract :
The objectives of this study were to find out whether or not there was
significant improvement on the eighth grade students? narrative reading
comprehension achievement who were taught by using It Says I Say And So
strategy at SMP Nurul Iman Palembang before and after the treatment, and to find
out whether or not there was significant difference on the eighth grade students?
narrative reading comprehension achievement between those who were taught by
using It Says I Say And So strategy and those who were not at SMP Nurul Iman
Palembang. This study used quasi-experimental design with non equivalent
pretest-posttest design. The population of this study was all of the eighth grade
students of SMP Nurul Iman Palembang which consisted of 152 students. There
were 72 students taken as sample. Each class consisted of 36 students in
Experimental group (VIII 1) and Control group (VIII 2). In collecting the data,
reading test in the form of multiple choice questions was used. The test was given
twice to experimental and control groups, as a pretest and posttest. To verify the
hypotheses, the data of pretest and posttest were analyzed by paired and
independent sample t-test in SPSS program. The finding showed that the p-output
from paired sample t-test (sig2.tailed) was 0.000 which was lower than 0.005 and
t- value 17.813 was higher than t-table 2.0301 (with df=35). Then, p-output from
independent sample t-test was 0.002 lower than 0.05 and t-value 3.207 was higher
than t-table 1.9944 (with df= 70). Therefore, it could be stated that the null
hypothesis (Ho) was rejected, and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It
means that narrative reading by using It Says I Say And So strategy had a
significant improvement on the students? narrative reading comprehension
achievement. Therefore, the result of this study is expected to contribute
something for the development of the process of English teaching and learning
especially for the teaching of narrative reading text.