Siti Humaeroh Pengarang

The aim of this research is to know whether there is a significant effect of using short story towards students’ reading comprehension at second grade of SMP Daarul Abroor Lebak Wangi. In order to achieve the objective of his research, the researcher used a quantitative method. The researcher took 50 students as the sample of this research and divided them into two classes, one as an experimental class and other as control class. The researcher used a test using 20 multiple choice questions as a research instruments. This research was conducted using pretest, treatments and posttest. The result of teaching students’ reading comprehension taught by the researcher using short story is good, because there was an improvement in the posttest score. In addition, there is significant effect of using short story on students’ reading comprehension between experimental and control class.