The Effect of Using Pop-up Books on the Eighth Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement

Abstract

Reading is one of the four language skills in English. The English teacher of SMPN 9 Jember taught English mainly based on text book. The English teacher also never uses any media in teaching and learning process except single pictures. Therefore, the students’ scores in reading is still low. To solve the problem above, the teacher can use media in teaching learning activities. The researcher then decided to use pop-up books as the teaching media to facilitate students to understand the descriptive text easily. Besides, they can motivate students’ passion for learning English and help the teacher to get students’ attention to the lesson. The use of pop-up books is also interesting for them because they have three dimensional effects and colorful. This experimental research was intended to investigate the effect of using pop-up books on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMPN 9 Jember in the 2019/2020 academic year. The population of this research was all of the eighth grade students of SMPN 9 Jember. The research participants were determined based on the result of students’ homogeneity test scores by using ANOVA formula, in which the result showed that the population of the research was homogeneous so that the experimental and the control groups were determined by using lottery. The number of the participants was 64 students, consisting of 32 students of VII-A as the experimental group that was taught reading by using pop-up books and 32 students of VII-B as the control group that was taught reading by using using pictures. The data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of reading comprehension achievement test, interview and documentation. Then, the researcher analyzed the result of the test by using t-test formula. Based on the calculation of data analysis, it was proven that the use of pop-up books affected significantly on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMPN 9 Jember in the 2019/2020 academic year. It could be seen from the value of significance that was less than 0.05 (0.004) with the significant interval of 95% which indicateded that the result of t-test analysis was significant. Therefore, the alternative hypothesis which was formulated: “There is a significant effect of using pop-up books on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement” was accepted. The research result proved that there was a significant effect of using popup books on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMPN 9 Jember. Therefore, it is recommended for the English teacher to use popup books as effective media in teaching reading comprehension.