The Effectiveness of English Comic in Teaching Reading Narrative text at the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Prembun in the Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

This research is aimed to find out whether there was any effectiveness of using English Comic in teaching reading narrative text at the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Prembun in the academic year of 2015/2016. The type of this research is quantitative. The design of this research was a quasi experiment design with pre-test and post-test procedure. The total population is 288 students of the eight grade students of SMP N 1 Prembun. This research applies a purposive sampling method to get samples. The total sample was 64 students. The sample was divided into two groups; the experimental group was 32 and the control group was 32. Then, the data was analyzed using the t-test method to find out whether there was any effectiveness of using English Comic in teaching reading narrative at the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Prembun in the academic year of 2015/2016. There were four steps in conducting this action research; conducting pretest, conducting treatment, conducting post-test, and evaluating. The computation result of t-test was 4.757. The critical value of t was 1.999 for α = 5% and df = 62. Because t value was higher than the critical value of t (4.757>1.999), H0 was refused and Ha or H alternative was accepted. Thus, the hypothesis stated that “there was effectiveness of using English Comic in teaching reading narrative text at the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Prembun in the academic year of 2015/2016 was accepted. It means that English Comic as a media toward the students’ reading ability of the eighth students of SMP N 1 Prembun was effective.