The Use of Story Face in Teaching Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text

This study was aimed to find out the process of teaching reading comprehension
through story face of narrative text and students’ problems in the process of learning
reading comprehension through story face of narrative text. The research was
conducted by using descriptive qualitative. The data were analyzed by qualitative
analysis technique which consists of three procedures, namely: data condentation,
data display and drawing/conclusion. The data were the result of observing and
interviewing of students at SMK Swasta Dwiwarna Medan. The data were analyzed
based on teaching reading comprehension through story face by Randolp (2012).
The findings showed that the process of teaching learning reading by using story
face could help the students in learning reading but teaching reading comprehension
by using story face was still less effective in grade tenth in SMK Swasta Dwiwarna
Medan. The teacher had followed the procedure well based on the Randolp(2012),
but the teacher did not manage the time well. There were some students’ problems
in learning reading comprehension of narrative text by using story face. The
problems were: (a) students lack vocabulary mastery, (b) The students had problem
to decode words and sentence, (c) Students had problem to get main idea of the text
and to figure out the inference of the text, (d) Students had habit of slow reading,
(e) Students had problem in working memory to remember the text, (f) students
were being passive during learning process and they did not confidence, they felt
afraid to make a mistake in learning reading.