Improving the Eleventh Grade Students' Narrative Text Writing Achievement through Comic Strips at MA Al-Amien Ambulu in 2014/2015 Academic Year

Abstract

This research was intended to improve the eleventh grade students’ participation and their narrative writing achievement through comic strips at MA Al-Amien Ambulu in 2014/2015 Academic Year. The research design was Classroom Action Research (CAR) which was consisted of planning of the action, implementation of the action, observation and evaluation, and reflection. The research subjects were the students of class XI IPA at MA AL-Amien Ambulu. The data were collected through observation and writing test and were analyzed quantitatively. Based on the result, it showed that there was an improvement on the percentage of the students who actively involved in the writing teaching learning process by fulfilling at least three indicators. It increased from 71.48% in Cycle 1 to 78.8% in Cycle 2. Then, the percentage of the students who got score 72 or higher also improved. The improvement could be seen from the result of narrative writing test that showed 66.67% of the students achieved the target of success criteria in Cycle 1 and it increased to 82.5% in Cycle 2. Based on those results, it was concluded that the use of comic strips could improve the eleventh grade students’ narrative text writing achievement.