THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMIC STRIPS TO INCREASE STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO COMPREHEND READING NARRATIVE TEXT

Abstract

Reading, writing, listening, and speaking are the essential skills that should be mastered by the learners who learn a language. Moreover, reading is one of the vital skills because someone may get some knowledge from what they read for through reading. To analyze the text that is reading, it needs good reading skills. In fact, in the field, some of the students are not interested in reading to enlarge their knowledge. Some factors affect it, such as the students do not like to learn because the media used by the teacher seems does not interested for the students. Moreover, some of the teachers do not use any media to teach.  They only use the textbook. The type of this research was experimental research by using pre and post design. The population was all of the students in the third grade of MTs.Thawalib Rao-Rao. They were 20 students. By using total sampling, all of the students were chosen as the samples. The result of the research found that the average students’ reading narrative text score before giving comic strips (conventional) was 59.80. Then, after applying the comic strips, the students’ average score was 72.52. It means that comic strips teaching method was effective to increase students score in comprehending narrative text of the students. It is hoped that this media can be applied for the teacher to teach narrative text in the classroom in order to encourage the students to have good reading skills to understand what they are reading.