The Effect of Using Fotonovelaon the Eighth Grade Junior High Schoolstudents’ Reading Comprehension Achievement

Abstract

Reading is one of the ways to achieve new information. In order to achieve correct information, students need to comprehend a text. According to King (2007) cited in (Charlemagne, 2015), there are different levels of comprehension which refer to literal comprehension and inferential comprehension. Both of them have important roles in comprehending the text. Literal comprehension deals with explicit information stated in the text and inferential comprehension involves deep understanding of the context. Since reading comprehension is important, teachers need to provide media or strategy which can help students comprehend the text. Media, in teaching learning process, can be defined as grafis tool photographic, or electronic; to capture, process, rearrange visual or verbal information (Arsyad 2011:3 cited in Harahap & Siregar). Media consisting of photographs is suitable for teaching reading to children because they have some clues in the photographs and attract children’s attention. Unger (2009) stated that fotonovela is potential to be an effective education tool because they are attractive, engaging, and using role model to demonstrate and communicate the information