THE INFLUENCE OF COMIC STRIPS STRATEGY TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ON RECOUNT TEXT
Keywords:
Comic Strips, Reading Comprehension, Recount TextAbstract
This research aimed to know the influence of Comic Strips towards students’ reading comprehension. This technique helped the students easier to comprehend the text because there were strips of picture that describes the event in the story. The objective of the research was to know the influence of Comic Strips towards students’ reading comprehension. In this research the writer used experimental method. The population was 516 students in 14 classes. The sample was taken by using Cluster Random Sampling Technique. There were two classes for the sample. First class was experimental class (X.KA) and the second class was the control class (X.MM 3). It consisted of 70 students. The main technique in measuring students’ reading comprehension was multiple choice which consisted of 40 items test. Each item has four options a,b,c,and d. The score each item was 2.5. In calculating the data analysis, the writer used t-test formula. Based on the data analysis, the writer got the result that was accepted. It was obtained that = 2.77, for α= 0.05 was 1.67 and for α=0.01 was 2.39 (2.77 > 1.67 < 2.39). So, was accepted. It meant that there was a significant influence of using Comic Strips strategy towards students’ reading comprehension of recount text at the tenth class of SMK Negeri 8 Bandar Lampung in 2021/2022. Based on this result, it is clear that Comic Strips can give good effect to the students’ reading comprehension.
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