Farah Puspitaning Ayu Prameswari, 2201405616 (2009) (ABSTRAK) THE USE OF TEXTBOOK “LOOK AHEAD 2” AS THE MATERIAL FOR IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ MASTERY IN NARRATIVE TEXT READING (The Case of Unit 2 to Teach the Eleventh Year Students of SMA Negeri 1 Kaliwungu in the Academic Year of 2008/2009). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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This final project concerns in teaching reading of narrative text at Senior High School by using Look Ahead 2 textbook. It is action research in which the main purpose of it is to investigate whether the use of Look Ahead 2 textbook is effective for improving students’ mastery in reading narrative text. The subject of the study is the year XI students of SMA N 1 Kaliwungu, Kendal in the academic year 2008/2009. The number of sample is 35 students. It consists of 29 female and 6 male students. The sample was gained by using the technique called the purposive sampling. The researcher carried out five activities to gain the data containing a pre-test, two activities of teaching-learning process, a formative test, a post-test and questionnaire. The researcher used quantitative methods to analyze the data. The quantitative methods are used to find out the result of the study which is the result of the students’ achievement test. The result of the data analysis shows significant improvement. The average of the class of the pre-test is 47.57, while it becomes 78.37 in the formative test. A significant result is shown in the post-test; that is 83.8. The result of the post-test is higher than the pre-test. According to the result of the study, the researcher concludes that the use of Look Ahead 2 textbook is effective for improving the students’ mastery in narrative text reading. The use of ‘Look Ahead 2’ textbook is recommended to the teacher to teach reading, because it gives the interesting activities for the students in learning narrative text reading.

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