Abstract:
Teaching English in Indonesia was started since elementary school. Based
on this fact, English is important language nevertheless students still found
difficulties in learning English. Teacher can used media in teaching English to
convey the lesson. Comic strip is one of medium that could be used for teaching
narrative text.
The goal of this research is to find out the effectiveness of using comic
strip for teaching narrative text on the second grade students of MAN
Kutowinangun in academic years 2011/2012. In this research, the writer took two
classes as the sample. One class was experimental group and other as control
group. Each class consists of 33 students. So, the number of sample was 66
students. While the instrument that was used in this thesis, was test. In collecting
the data, the writer used pre-test and post-test. Before conducting post-test, the
writer gave treatment for experimental group using comic strip and common way
for control group. After getting enough data, the writer calculated the data using ttest
polled- variance.
Based on the previous computation, the mean score of experimental group
was 73.93 and the mean of control group was 62.93 to see whether the hypothesis
was accepted or rejected, the t-value was consulted to the t-table at the 0.05
significance level. It shows that the t-table was 1.99 and the t-value was 6.32. It
means that t-value was higher than t-table, that was 6.32 > 1.99. So, it can be
concluded that the use of using comic strip for teaching narrative text at the
second grade students of MAN Kutowinangun in the academic years 2011/2012
was effective
