The effectiveness of using comic in teaching reading to the second graders of SMPN 1 Sumbergempol Tulungagung in academic year 2013 / 2014

Keywords: effectiveness, reading achievement, comic, narrative Reading is important skill to help people learn from human knowledge and experience. Through reading, knowledge has greatly contributed to the growth of mankind. Reading, in particular, helps language learners obtain a lot of knowledge by actively and critically relate the ideas of the text. Nevertheless, it is not easy to read for comprehension. Many students do not have sufficient background knowledge to comprehend text. Besides, they are not able to link some ideas so that they can’t acquire complete message of the text. To help students comprehend the text more easily, pictures are needed in the reading materials. Thus, picture becomes one way out to help students to engage themselves with the content of the text in order to comprehend the text. Based on the explanation above, the writer is interested to find out the effect of using comic in teaching reading to the second graders at SMPN 1 Sumbergempol Tulungagung 2013/2014. The formulation of the research problem is how is the effectiveness of using comic in teaching reading to the second graders at SMPN 1 Sumbergempol Tulungagung 2013/2014 ? The purpose of the study is intended to know the effectiveness of using comic in teaching reading the second graders at SMPN 1 Sumbergempol Tulungagung 2013/2014. Research method : 1) the research design in this study was pre-experimental one group pretest post test, 2) The population of this study was all students’ of second grade students at SMPN 1 Sumbergempol, 3) The sample was VIII E class consisting of 27 students, 4)The research instrument was a test, 5) The data analysis was using T test. The result showed that the students’s mean score in reading before treatment was 67.48. While the students’ score after treatment was 84.52. With the numeral of significant 0.000, it means that smaller from 0.05, then the hypothesis null clarify that there is no significant different score using by comic on the students’ reading achievement at the second grade of SMPN 1 Sumbergempol Tulungagung is rejected. Because the tcount is bigger than ttable the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected.It means that there is a significant different reading score of the second grade at SMPN 1 Sumbergempol ix between before and after taught by using comic. The conclusion is using comic in teaching reading is effective