Students’ Perception towards Storytelling Courseware in Understanding Types of Reading Text

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to design a storytelling courseware to help students in understanding types of reading text especially descriptive, narrative and procedure. Besides, this study also identify students’ perception towards storytelling courseware in understanding types of reading text. A quantitative survey research design was used in this study. The research samples consisted of 70 first year students in senior high school. The samples were taken from 2 different school. Data were gathered using a questionnaire. Descriptive statistics which are mean and standard deviation indicated that students’ perception towards the design of the courseware is quite good. The overall mean for students’ perception on achievement from storytelling courseware was quite high, which is 3.07. This study shows that multimedia courseware to enhance student acquisition on types of reading text give a very positive way in teaching and learning process. The students respond show that multimedia courseware become one of the interesting method in teaching and learning English reading.