THE EFFECT OF USING COMIC STRIPS ON STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT

This study is focused on the investigation of the effect of using comic strips on students achievement in writing narrative text. This study aims at findings whether using comic strips affect the students writing achievement or not. The data which were needed in this study were obtained by conducting a written test. The population was the 2014/2015 second year students (grade XI) of SMA N 1 Berastagi and 60 students were taken as the sample by using random sampling. The sample was divided into two groups, experimental group and control group. The experimental group was taught by using comic strips while the control group was taught without using comic strips (conventional method). The data were taken by administering the pre-test and post-test to both control and experimental groups. These data were analyzed by using t-test. The result of computing the t-test obviously showed that t-observed is higher than t-table (3,08 > 1,67) with the degree of freedom 58 (df = N-2) at the level significance 0,05 one tail test. It showed that the using of science comic strips affects the students achievement in writing narrative text.