| dc.description.abstract | Reading plays an essential role in English language learning that every
learner needs to comprehend the English texts. Dealing with the students’
comprehension, it is important to use appropriate and interesting media to
motivate the students in comprehending the text. Composite picture can be an
alternative media in teaching reading as it.
This research was a quasi-experimental research. The purpose of this
research is to know whether or not there is a significant effect of using composite
pictures on reading comprehension achievement of the eighth grade students at
SMPN 11 Jember. The area of this research was SMPN 11 Jember. It was chosen
purposively because the use of composite pictures as media of teaching English
had never been applied in teaching learning process in the school.
The respondents of this research were the eighth grade students of SMPN 11
Jember. In determining the respondents, homogeneity analysis by using ANOVA
formula was applied to know the homogeneity of the population. Based on the
calculation, the condition of the eighth grade of SMPN 11 Jember was
homogenous. Thus, the researcher chose two classes randomly then doing lottery
to decide the control group and the experimental group.
Before giving a post-test, a try out test was conducted to know whether or
not the test items were suitable for the eighth grade students’ level of
comprehension. In addition, from the result of the try out, it can be seen whether
or not the test needed to be revised and the time allocation was suffiecient.
The posttest was given to both groups after each groups received treatment
twice, that was teaching reading comprehension by using composite pictures to
the experimental group and teaching reading comprehension without using any
media for the conrol group. The result of independent sample t-test analysis shows
the value of significance (2-tailed) was 0.00002 which was lower than 0.05. It
means that there was a statistical difference between the mean score of the student
in the experimental group and the mean score of the students in the control group.
Based on the results, it could be concluded that there was a significant effect
of using composite pictures on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension
achievement at SMPN 11 Jember. The research findings said that the students in
the experimental group got better score than those who were in the control group.
This can be seen in the result of the posttest scores.
Thus, it is recommended for the English teacher to use composite pictures as
the media of teaching English especially in teaching reading comprehension skill.
It is suggested that the students of SMPN 11 Jember be actively involve
themselves in the teaching and learning process by practicing their English by
using composite pictures as their media to help them comprehend the text more
easily. Moreover, it is hoped that the result of this research can be used as a
reference and information for future researchers to conduct further research
dealing with similar problem by using another research design. | en_US |
