THE USE OF COMIC STRIPS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SKILLS IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT (A Classroom Action Research of the Second Grade Students of SMP IT Nurul Islam Tengaran in the Academic Year of 2015/2016)

DEWANA, ERSA (2016) THE USE OF COMIC STRIPS TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ SKILLS IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT (A Classroom Action Research of the Second Grade Students of SMP IT Nurul Islam Tengaran in the Academic Year of 2015/2016). Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Abstract Dewana, Ersa. 2016. The Use of Comic Strips to Improve Student Skills in Writing Recount Text (A Classroom Action Research of the Second Grade Students of SMP IT Nurul Islam Tengaran in Academic Year 2015/2016). Graduating Paper. English Department Teacher Training and Education Faculty State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Key Words: Writing, Recount Text, Comic strips This study is aimed to find out the improvement of the students skills in writing recount text of the second grade students of SMP IT Nurul Islam Tengaran in the Academic Year of 2015/2016 through comic strips. Besides that, it is also to describe the implementation of comic strips in teaching writing of recount text at the second grade students of SMP IT Nurul Islam Tengaran in the Academic Year of 2015/2016. The number of the students in this research was 25 students. In completing this research the researcher used the observation, documentation, and written test as the instrument of collecting the data. By conducting classroom action research, it was found out that the implementation of comic strips improved students’ ability in writing recount text. 1) From the result mean score of post-tests are higher than the pre-test. In the cycle 1 shows that the pre-test score is 54.8 and the post test is 59.6 and in the cycle 2 shows that the pre-test score is 59 and the post test is 78.4, it means, there’s significant score after applying comic strips as a media in teaching writing recount text. 2) The result of statistic calculation indicates that the result of t-test of cycle 1 (to) calculation (2,49) and t-table (tt) value is 2,0693 and the result of t-test of cycle 1 (to) calculation (10,57) and t-table (tt) value is 2,0693 Because the result of t-test cycle 1 ≥ t-table = 2,49 ≥ 2,0693 and the result of t-test cycle 2 ≥ t-table = 10,57 ≥ 2,0693 , the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis is rejected. 3) It is also proved that the use of comic strips is powerful because is from the score of observation sheet, it shows mostly good in cycle 1 and mostly excellent in the last cycle. It means that there is significant improvement of students’ writing skills of recount text after being tought by using comic strips. Based on the result of this study it could be concluded that the implementation of comic strips could improve students’ ability in writing recount text of the second grade students of SMP IT Nurul Islam Tengaran in academic years 2015/2016.

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