Abstract:
Learning English is a must for students. It’s because English is a study that is taught in many schools in this world. In English, there are four language skills. One of them is reading. Reading is not an easy skill to do. It needs high student’s understanding to know the message or the value of the text in reading. To increase understanding in reading, it can be done through media such as the comic book. The problems on this research are to knowwhether Using Raju and The Money of Tree Comic is effective or not to improve students’ reading comprehension at the eleventh grade students of SMA N 4 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013.
The population of this research is the eleventh grade students of SMA N 4 Purworejo. The researcher took 66 students as the sample of the research. As the experimental group, the researcher used class XI IS 2 that consists of 33 students. The control group, the researcher used class XI IS 3 that consists of 33 students. The independent variable is the use of Raju and The Money of Tree Comic in teaching reading comprehension, and the dependent variable is the students’ reading comprehention result manifested in the test score. In getting the data, the researcher analyzed the data by using descriptive statistic analysis (mean, modus, median, SD, and the highest and lowest score) and inferential analysis (normality test, test homogeneity and t-test as test of hypothesis).
The result of this research showed that teaching by using Raju and The Money of Tree Comic is effective to improve students’ reading comprehension at the eleventh grade students of SMA N 4 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013. As the fact, the result of t-value was 4.02. Based on the research findings, the value in the t-table for N1=31 and N2=31. Then, the significance level was 5%.The value of t-table was 2.000. The computation shows that t-value was higher than t-table that was 4.02>2.000.Thus, Ha (Hypothesis Alternative) is accepted and using Raju and The Money of Tree Comic is effective to improve the students’ reading comprehension.
