Riyan Azkalia , 2201412122 (2016) THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VISUAL IMAGERY STRATEGY IN TEACHING READING NARRATIVE TEXTS (A Quasi-Experimental Research at the Tenth Grade of MAN 1 Kota Magelang in the Academic Year 2015/2016). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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This research aims to describe the significant difference between students who are taught by using Visual Imagery Strategy and those who are taught by using discussion strategy. Furthermore, it aims to describe the effectiveness of implementing the strategy in teaching reading narrative text. The strategy is implemented by instructing students to reveal the verbal codes (visual language/writing) and nonverbal codes (visual objects) within a text. By using a quasi-experimental design, the significant difference of experimental and control groups’ mean scores are computed. Moreover, in an attempt to describe further about the effect of the strategy, a questionnaire is administered to the subject of this research. The population of this research is the tenth grade students of MAN 1 Kota Magelang in the academic year of 2015/2016. The experimental group is X IS 1; meanwhile, the control group is X IA 3. The study was initiated by giving pretest, treatments, and post-test to both groups. In the one hand, the experimental group (X IS 1) was taught by using Visual Imagery Strategy. In the other hand, the control group (X IA 3) was taught by using regular strategy used by their teacher, which was the strategy of discussion. The data were gathered by giving reading comprehension test to both groups. In addition, the questionnaire was administered to the experimental group. The result analysis of the quantitative data shows that the mean scores of the experimental group increases from 58.65 to 72.60. The t-test shows that the tvalue (2.395) was higher than ttable (1.997). The result concludes that the working hypothesis is accepted. It means that there is a significant difference between students who were taught by using visual imagery strategy and those who were taught by using discussion strategy. In addition, the analysis of the questionnaire shows that 62.50% of the students agree that the implementation of the strategy assists their comprehension and 25% of them even strongly agree towards the statement. Thus, the analysis reveals that Visual Imagery Strategy is effective in teaching reading narrative text.

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