Improving Student’s Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text Through Video Movie at Grade Eleventh Social 2 of MAN 2 Model Pekanbaru.

The students’ reading comprehension of narrative text of grade eleven Social 2 MAN 2 Model Pekanbaru was low. Therefore, this research aimed to explain how well video movies can improve the students’ reading comprehension of narrative text of grade eleventh Social 2 at MAN 2 Model Pekanbaruand how the students’ participation in the class activities for learning reading comprehension of narrative text was affected by video movies as a visual aid for grade eleven Social 2 of MAN 2 Model. This research was classroom action research, which was conducted in two cycles. The participants were 28 students in grade eleven Social 2 at MAN 2 Model Pekanbaru. The instruments that were used to collect the data were reading comprehension of narrative test, observation checklist, field notes and interview guides. The data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. Based on the data analysis, the findings are: (1) the use of video movies can improve students’ achievement on reading comprehension of narrative text. (2) Students’ participation in class activities in learning narrative reading text increases. The average score of students increase from 78.1 in cycle 1 and 95.4 in cycle 2. While their participation decreased for level “uninvolved” and “involved from 17.2% to 0.0% ( 3 students to 0 students) and 70.5% to 39.3% ( 20 students to 11 students) but increased for level “very involved” from 11.6% to 60.7% ( 3 students to 17 students) from cycle 1 to cycle 2. The decreasing and increasing here showed the positive progress for students’ participation. It means that through watching video movies, some activities in applying video movie and the appropriate reading material chosen increase their participation. And finally the class room action research through watching video movies improved students reading comprehension of narrative text at grade XI Social 2 of MAN 2 Pekanbaru very well and their participation significantly improved