Using English Comic Strips to Help Senior High School Students Write Narrative Text and Improve Their Writing Achievement

Abstract

The result of writing test analysis data on the writing scores and observation are explained in the following conclusions: 1. The result of analysis data of observation proved that the use of comicstrips in teaching narrative writing could help students to analyze verbs 2,adverbs, and adjectives from the story of narrative text given. 2. The use of comic strips in teaching and learning activity could help students’ comprehension of generic structure of narrative text after they had been taught by the researcher in each cycle (Cycle 1 and Cycle 2). 3. The use of comic strips as the media in teaching and learning activity could help students write an outline from the comic strips showed by theresearcher in front of the class and students could also write wellorganized narrative text based on their outline done before. 4. Students improvement in writing narrative text by using comic strips proved that they achieved the target score in Cycle 1 was 75.7%. In Cycle 2, students who succeed in achieving the target score became 81.1%. It can be concluded that there was an improvement for students in writing narrative text after being taught by using comic strips as the media.