THE APPLICATION OF SS'GO TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXTS FOR ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMA KESATRIAN 1 SEMARANG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2023/2024

A graphic organizer is a visual communication tool that uses visual symbols
to express ideas and concepts and convey meaning. Story sequence (SS’GO)
is about identifying parts such as the beginning, middle and end of a story
and being able to retell the events of a given text in the order they occurred.
This research was conducted as a quantitative study using a quasi�experimental research design. The population of the study was all the
students in eleventh grade in SMA Kesatrian 1 Semarang. The participants
in this research study were 212 students. The researcher only examined 2
classes, the students consisted of 34- 34 students. The data which was
collected from Reading Pretest and Posttest and closed questionnaires. The
use of the SS''go method has been investigated to see if this method is useful
for improving the reading comprehension ability of narrative texts in
students; the experimental class pre-test shows M 17.50 with Sum of Ranks
The control class has a pre-test score (M25,84 and Sum of Ranks 878,50).
The control class has a mean score of 17,50 with the Sum of Ranks of
595,00, the mean score in experimental class with the amount of 51,50 with
the Sum of Ranks of 1751,00. Sig (2-tailed) score is 0,000 besides on
criteria, 5% significant score shows that the score is less than 5 % (0,000
0,05).
Keywords: Graphic organizers, SS’Go, Reading Comprehension