Improving Students' Reading Comprehension Through Comic Strips at Junior High School

Qomariyah, Fitrotul (2023) Improving Students' Reading Comprehension Through Comic Strips at Junior High School. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Reading is the process of comprehending a text. In the contexts of students’ ability, reading is understanding the meaning of text that they are reading. Reading with comprehension means one will recognize the purpose and the important points of the text besides understanding the surface meaning of the text there fore, there are five reading aspects which help the students comprehend the English text well, namely: main idea, specific information, reference, inference, and vocabulary. This research was focus on reading comprehension. It is related to the problem identification that students difficult to find aspect such us making inference, finding the main idea of the text, finding specific information, and also vocabulary that the students don’t understand, and the students also find it difficulty when working on question about reading text English. The teacher rarely used media in classroom which made students bored.
This research was conducted to investigate “How can comic strips media to improve students reading comprehension”. This research aim to improve the use of comic strips media on solving the problem of the students’ reading comprehension. This research objective to improve students’ in reading comprehension through comic strips media
This research employed the four-steps of Classroom Action Research (CAR) approach reposed by Kemmis and McTaggart which entailed planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. This research conducted one cycle consisted of six meetings include pre-test and post-test. To collect the data, the researcher used the student’s reading comprehension test pre-test and post-test, field notes, interview, and questionnaire.
The result of this research was indicated that there were improvements of students’ reading comprehension. It was proven by the data showed that there were 86% of the students who scored equal to or higher than the Minimum Passing Score (KKM 60) and most students gave a positive response to the use of comic strips. Therefore, it is suggested for English teachers to implement comic strips as a media in instructional process especially in improving students’ reading comprehension.
Keywords: Reading comprehension, Comic strips media

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