| dc.description.abstract | This Experimental Research was intended to investigate whether or not there
is a significant effect of using picture series on reading comprehension achievement
of the eighth grade students at SMPN Sukorambi Jember in the 2011/2012 Academic
Year. Specifically, this research also identifies the variables of reading
comprehension as the supporting information such as, word comprehension, phrase
comprehension, sentence comprehension, paragraph comprehension and text
comprehension. The research participants were the eighth class students that were
determined purposively by consulting to the eight grade English teacher. The area of
this research, SMPN Sukorambi Jember, was chosen purposively because the use of
picture series has never been applied in teaching learning process reading
comprehension in this school.
The primary data of this research were collected from the students‟ score of
reading comprehension test. Meanwhile, documentation and interview with the
English teacher were used to get the supporting data. The primary data were analyzed
by using t-test sampling formula with 5% significant level. The results of statistical
computation of reading comprehension achievement in general indicated that the
statistical value of t-test was higher than that of t-table (3.59 > 2.00), and the degree
of freedom (df) was 86 (60 is the nearest range). It meant that the null hypothesis was
rejected, while the alternate hypothesis was accepted. Then, the result of Degree of
Relative Effectiveness (DRE) was 9.73%. It meant that the degree of relative
effectiveness of using picture series in teaching reading comprehension was 9.73%
more effective than teaching reading without media picture series.
Specifically, the results of the computation of word comprehension
achievement, phrase comprehension achievement, and text comprehension
achievement indicated that the statistical value of t-test was higher than that of t-table;
word comprehension achievement (2.11 > 2.00), phrase comprehension achievement
(2.91 > 2.00) and text comprehension achievement (2.33 > 2.00) for Df 86. It meant
that the null hypothesis was rejected, while the alternate hypothesis was accepted. It
means that “there is a significant effect of using picture series on the eighth level
students‟ reading comprehension achievement at SMPN Sukorambi Jember”.
But, on the sentence comprehension and paragraph comprehension the value
of t- test was lower than t- table with the significant level of 5%, sentence
comprehension (1.25 < 2.00) and paragraph comprehension (1.57 < 2.00) with Df 86.
Based on the results, the null hypothesis (ho) was accepted and the alternate
hypothesis was rejected. It means that “there is no significant effect of using picture
series in students‟ sentence comprehension achievement and paragraph
comprehension achievement on eighth level of SMPN Sukorambi Jember”. As
supporting information, it can be said that the results of sentence comprehension and
paragraph comprehension in this research contradict with the theoretical framework
of picture series which picture series is easy to identify general information.
In conclusion, it can be concluded that the use of picture series can improve
the students‟ reading achievement. Therefore, the English teachers should use picture
series as a media in teaching reading comprehension. For the future researchers, this
research results is needed to be a useful reference to do a further research with the
same topic in different designs | en_US |
