TEACHING NARRATIVE READING BY USING PREDICT, ORGANIZE, REHEARSE, PRACTICE, AND EVALUATE (PORPE) STRATEGY TO THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 3 BETUNG

The objectives of the study were to find out whether or not there was a significant improvement on the eighth grade students‟ narrative reading achievement who were taught by using PORPE strategy at SMPN 3 Betung before and after treatment and to find to find out whether or not there was a significant difference on the eighth grade students‟ narrative reading achievement between those who were taught by using PORPE strategy and those who were not at SMPN 3 Betung. In this study, the researcher used Quasi Experimental Design using pretest-posttest nonequivalent group design. There were 62 students taken as the sample. In collecting the data, the test was used. The test was multiple choice test that consisted of 40 items. The test was given twice to both control and experimental groups as a pretest and posttes. To verity the hypotheses, the data of pretest and posttest were analyzed by using paired sample t-test and independent sample t-test in SPSS program. The findings showed that the p-outpu rom paired sample t-test (sig2-taied) was 0.000 which was lower than 0.05 and t-value 35.856 was higher than t-table with df=30 (2.0423). The result of p-output from independent sample t-test was 0.001 which was lower than 0.05 level and t-value 3.451 was higher than t-table with df=60 (2.0003). Therefore, it means that teaching narrative reading by using PORPE strategy had significant improvement and showed significant difference on the students‟ reading comprehension score. Keywords: Teaching, Narrative Reading, PORPE Strategy.