The effectiveness of using comic strips in teaching reading comprehension of narrative text (A Quasi-experimental Study at Second Grade Students of SMPN 2 Tangerang Selatan in Academic Year 2017/2018)

The purpose of this study is to understand whether the use of comic strips in teaching learning activities is effective to the students‟ reading comprehension, especially in narrative text. The method used in this research was quantitative design with a quasi-experimental study. The population in this study were 330 students‟ from SMPN 2 Tangerang Selatan with two sample classes which have 30 students in each class. Both classes were assigned into experimental and control class. Experimental class was taught by using the media as supporting instrument in order to comprehend the narrative text with comic strips meanwhile, control class was taught with traditional teaching method by the teacher. The data was collected through pre-test and post-test. Based on the calculation, this research showed that using comic strips is effective in teaching-learning narrative text. This conclusion was supported by the mean of post-test in experimental class which got 70.40 wihle the control class was 68.17. It means that the post-test mean of experiment class was higher than the control class (70.40>68.17). therefore, the statistics showed that 1.937 > 1.67= tobserve > ttable which proves that the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the Null Hypothesis is rejected. In conclusion teaching reading comprehension of narrative text by using comic strips is effective on students‟ reading skill