IMPROVING STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL BY USING COMIC STRIPS

Rahajeng Gienovita Anggraeni, Martono Martono, Ahmad Dahlan Rais

Abstract

This research aims at identifying how the use of Comic Strips can improve students’ writing skill on narrative text; and describing the class climate when Comic Strips are implemented in the writing class. The method used in this research is a collaborative action research which was conducted in two cycles at the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 5 Surakarta from April 15th to May 8th, in which in the first cycle there were 3 meetings and in the second cycle there were 2 meetings. Each cycle consisted of four steps: planning, implementing, evaluation, and reflection. The research data were collected by using observation, questionnaire, interviews, field notes, photographs, and tests. The qualitative data were analyzed through assembling the data, coding, comparing, building interpretations, and reporting the outcomes. The quantitative data were analyzed by comparing the mean scores of the pre-test and the post-tests. The research findings show that Comic Strips could improve students’ writing skill and classroom climate of English class. The mean score had the improvement from pretest to the post-test 2, from 64.05 to 79.93.

Keywords

writing, Comic Strips, narrative text, SMP students

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