THE EFFECT OF USING COMICS ON THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMA PGRI 6 GENTENG BANYUWANGI

Abstract

This Experimental Research was intended to know whether or not the use of Comics has a significant effect on the tenth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMA PGRI 6 Genteng Banyuwangi. The area of this research was SMA PGRI 6 Genteng Banyuwangi. It was chosen purposively because the use of Comics had never been applied in teaching learning process in this school. In addition, it was possible to get permission to conduct the research. The respondents of this research were the tenth grade students of SMA PGRI 6 Genteng Banyuwangi in the 2013/ 2014 academic year. The research respondents were determined by cluster random sampling through a lottery. The total number of the respondents was 72 students that consisted of 36 students of X1 as the experimental group taught by using Comics, while the control group consisted of 36 students of X3 taught by using Lecturing and Question-Answer method. The data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of reading comprehension test, interview and documentation. The reading comprehension test was collected from the post test to make comparison between the two groups after the treatment, and the result was analyzed by using t-test formula. Based on the calculation, the mean score of the experimental group was higher than that of the mean score of the control group (69.58>63.61). The result of the t-test analysis with significant level of 5% was higher than that of the t-table. This means that the null hypothesis was rejected, thus the alternate hypothesis stating that the use of Comics has a significant effect on the tenth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMA PGRI 6 Genteng Banyuwangi was accepted. It indicated that there was a significant effect of using Comics on the tenth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement at SMA PGRI 6 Genteng Banyuwangi. Based on the results, it could be concluded that Comics gave a significant effect on reading comprehension achievement. Then, it is suggested to the English teachers to use Comics as the media in teaching reading comprehension since the media affects the students’ achievement significantly.