The Effectiveness of Using Comic Strips in Teaching Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text at the Ninth Grade Students of SMP N 4 Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2022/2023

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine whether teaching reading comprehension of narrative text to ninth-grade students in SMP N 4 Purworejo in the academic year 2022/2023 is beneficial when comic strips are used. The researchers' one-group pre- and post-test design is used in this study. The population consists of the 255 ninth-grade students of SMP N 4 Purworejo for the 2022–2023 academic year. 32 pupils from class IX H make up the research's sample of students. Because of their limited resources in terms of time, power, and money, the researchers decided to adopt purposive sampling as their sampling method. 30 multiple-choice test items are used by the researchers to get the data.
The researchers determined the mean pretest score to be 59.69 and the mean posttest score to be 84.91 through computation using SPSS version 16. Additionally, the researchers used the pre-test (0.114>0.05) and post-test (0.143>0.05) of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test to obtain their results. Using the paired sample t-test, the researchers determine that the data have a normal distribution. The outcome reveals that Ha is accepted because Sig. (2-tailed) the test is 0.000 0.05. Thus, it can be said that the use of comic strips in the ninth grade of SMP N 4 Purworejo in the academic year of 2022/2023 is effective in teaching reading comprehension of narrative text