Improving students' reading skill through digital comic strips at the second grades of SMK Raudlatul Ulum in Academic year 2024/2025

Nisa, Intan Choiron (2025) Improving students' reading skill through digital comic strips at the second grades of SMK Raudlatul Ulum in Academic year 2024/2025. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Reading Skill
Reading skills refer to the abilities needed to understand written text.
These skills encompass decoding words, comprehending meaning, and
interpreting information, allowing individuals to engage with and make sense of
written language. They are fundamental for learning, communication, and
accessing information. Using english language digital comic strips can be an
engaging alternative medium to learn english for students. Digital comic strips
themselves are a series of images that have a story and are presented episodically
so that it is expected to make it easy for students to memorize English vocabulary.
Digital comic strips including english dialogue and visual images can make
students feel something new and different from what they usually do in class.
The research question in this study is: How is Digital Comic-Strips
improving students' reading skill at the Second Grades of SMK Raudlatul Ulum?
This study aims to investigate how digital comic strips can improve students’
reading skill at the second grades of SMK Raudlatul Ulum.
This research applies Classroom Action Research by Kemmis and Mc.
Taggart that consists of four stages, namely planning, acting, observing, and
reflecting. There were two cycles in this study consisting of three meetings. This
study focuses on digital comic strips to improve students' reading skill. The
researcher conducted this study at SMK Raudlatul Ulum Panti Jember, which
consists from 20 students of second grade. To collect data, the researcher used a
student reading test, observation and document reviews.
The results of the research in cycle 1 showed that 55% of students who
managed to get a score above the minimum mastery criterion (KKM) with the
mean 68.5. and the held of cycle 2 showed that 75% of students who got the
criteria of success with the mean 78,75. The criteria for success in this study is if
students who achieve a minimum mastery criterion (75) are equal to or more than
75% of the total students in this study, it can be said to be successful. It showed a
significant improvement, thus it fulfill the success criteria. It can be concluded
that the use digital comic strips is believed to be an effective way to improve
students reading skill at the second grade of SMK Raudlatul Ulum.

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