The Effectiveness of Using English Comic Strip for Teaching Narrative Text at Second Grade Students of MAN Kutowinangun in the Academic year 2011/2012

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