THE EFFECT OF STORY MAPPING STRATEGY ON GRADE VIII STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT

This research aims at investigating the effect of story mapping strategy on grade
VIII students’ achievement in writing narrative text. It was conducted by using
experimental research design. The Population of this research was the eighth
(VIII) grade students of St. Thomas 1 Junior High School Medan. There were two
classes as the sample. The first class (VIII-F) as the experimental group consists
of 20 students, while the second class (VIII-B) as the control group consists of 20
students. The experimental group was taught by using story mapping strategy
while control group was taught by using lecturing strategy. The instrument for
collecting the data was writing test. The data were analyzed by using t-test
formula. The analysis showed that the score of students in the experimental group
by using story mapping strategy was higher than the score of students in the
control group by using lecturing strategy, at the level of significance (α) 0.05 with
the degree of freedom (df) 38, the t-observed was 2,818 while the t-table was
2,024. Therefore, the applying of story mapping strategy significantly affects the
students’ achievement in writing narrative text.