THE USE OF COMIC STRIPS TO IMPROVE THE STUDENT READING COMPREHENSION AT SMAN 6 LUWU

ABSTRACT Utari Resky Auliyah, 2022. “ The Use Of Comic Strips to Improve the Students Reading Comprehension at SMAN 6 LUWU”. A thesis Of The English Departement Study Program Faculty Of Tarbiyah And Teacher Training State Islamic Institute Of Palopo. Supervised By: (1) Amalia Yahya And (2) Wahibah This purpose of this study was to determine the students’ improvement in learning reading comprehension using the comic strips at SMAN 6 Luwu. This research applied class action research, which was taken respondent was 22 students. The researcher starts with the first cycle and the next second cycle. The researcher interestingly tells the comic strips so that students do not feel bored during the learning process and comic strips brings good effect in the class, their can improve reading skill and vocabularies.Using comic strips, the students can easily find the information in teaching reading comprehension especially at literal comprehension (finding specific information) and interpretative comprehension(making conclution) and can answer the questions in multiple choice. It was proved by the obtained mean score in cycle I was 49,0 %, while in cycle II was 81,36. Keywords: Comic Strips, Reading Comprehension, Class Action Research