Open AccessTHE EFFECT OF COMIC STRIPS ON SECONDARY EFL STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AND WRITING ABILITY
Author(s) -
Muhammad Ridhwan,
Muhammad Ihsan,
Naskah Naskah
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
english journal of inragiri/english journal of indragiri
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2598-5140
pISSN - 2549-2144
DOI - 10.32520/eji.v2i2.236
Subject(s) - comic strip , null hypothesis , reading comprehension , class (philosophy) , test (biology) , alternative hypothesis , sample (material) , control sample , reading (process) , comics , psychology , mathematics education , mathematics , computer science , statistics , linguistics , artificial intelligence , biology , chemistry , paleontology , philosophy , chromatography , food science
The purpose of this study was to investigate the significant effect of using comic strips strategy toward students’ reading comprehension and writing ability at MTsN 1 Pekanbaru. A Quasi-Experimental by Non-equivalent Pre-test and Post-test Group was applied as a designed for study. The sample was two classes (VIII 3 and VIII 4) consisting 20 students of treatment class, and 20 students of control class. The data were computed using SPPS 20.0 to analyze Independent sample t-test and Paired sample t-test. The finding of this study revealed that there was a significant effect on students’ reading comprehension by using comic strips strategy, it shown on paired sample t-test; treatment class was 77 and control class was 64.5, the hypothesis testing showed the result of post T-test -7.149, then score of sig.(2-tailed) is 0.000, if we act to null hypothesis (Ho) that is 0.05, it means that the score of sig.(2-tailed) was smaller than score of Ho. The data also revealed that there was a significant effect on students’ writing ability, it shown on paired sample t-test; treatment class was 79.6 and control class was 54.2, the hypothesis testing showed the result of post T-test -21.9, then score of sig.(2-tailed) is 0.000, if we act to null hypothesis (Ho) that is 0.05, it means that the score of sig.(2-tailed) was smaller than score of Ho. Therefore, the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. From those data it can be summarized that there is a significant effect of using comic strips strategy on students’ reading comprehension and writing ability.