Students’ Skill in Comprehending Fable and Short Story at Second Grade of SMA N 1 Gunung Talang

Reading is one skill that is very important in the English learning process.
Through the reading activities a student will not only learn about the content of
the text, but indirectly she or he has to learn the language used in the text. Along
the development of curriculum, learning English now use the approach of reading
the text (Genre-Based Approach). One of the texts used in high school level is
Narrative and among the texts that often occur are Fable and Short Story.
This study aims to explain the skill of second grade of Senior High School
students in comprehending Fable and Short Story. The results of this study are
expected to contribute for teachers in designing and preparing teaching of reading
Narrative at the high school level.
This research is a comparative study with the study population is students
of XI class SSN (National Standard Schools) SMA Negeri 1 Gunung Talang,
Solok year 2009/2010. Sample is decided by using random sampling technique.
Test instruments used are reading with brief answers.
The results of this study revealed that, statistically, students' skill in
comprehending Fable and Short Story were the same because the obtained of tvalue higher than the obtained of minus t-table (t-value > -t-table = -1, 364 > 1,
671). From the results obtained that the average student in understanding Fable is
62, 05 (enough), while for the Short Story is 65, 02 (enough). Thus we can
conclude that the level of student in the understanding Fable and Short Story still
less.