THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING ENGLISH COMIC TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENT OF SMA N 4 PURWOREJO IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

The objective of this research is to find out wheter the use of English Comic is effective or not to improve reading comprhension of eleventh grade students of SMA N 4 Purworejo. Comics is a form of cartoons that portray a story using the characters in order to entertain their readers. Comics as a kind of cartoon form expressing character and playing a story in sequences of closely related drawingand designed to give fun to the readers. As the fact, the result of t-value is 9,60 based on the 0.05 significant level, the value of t-table is 2.00. The result of computation shows that t-value is higher than t-table, that is 9,60 >2.00. Thus, it can be concluded that the hypothesis the effectiveness of using English comic to improve reading comprehension at eleventh grade students of SMA N 4 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013 is effective.

Key words: English, Comic, Reading comprehensions.