THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ENGLISH COMIC IN TEACHING WRITING “RECOUNT TEXT” AT THE SECOND GRADE OF SMP N 1 SIMAN PONOROGO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017

Key word: English Comic, Writing, Recount Text The purpose of this studyingto know the effectiveness of English Comic in teaching writing “recount text” at the second grade of SMPN 1 SimanPonorogo. Research method used was quasi experimental design with non-Equivalent control group design. The population of this research was the second grade of SMPN 1 SimanPonorogo the years 2016/2017 with sample 44 students, they were class E 22 students and class F 22 students. The instruments used pretest, posttest, and questionnaire. From the data know of that: 1) there was a difference after doing treatment using media English comic. It was evidenced by result of t-test for pretest and posttest between experiment class and control class established in pretest, using result of independent sample T-test by both of the same variance assumption to hypothesis Ho : toward Ha : that given value = 0,722314398 and t-table with free of degree = 22+22-2= 42 with standard error α = 5%, t-table = 2,02. Because (0,722314398) t-table (2,02), so null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected, while alternative hypothesis (Ha) was received.It can be concluded that there were differences between post-test in experiment class and post-test in control after doing treatment. 2) From the questionnaire, there were difference between pretest and posttest. It can be concluded that in data questionnaire pretest obtained 72,15% and in data questionnaire posttest obtained 87,25%