THE EFFECT OF USING TEACHING MEDIA ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING NARRATIVE TEXT

This study was investigating the effect of applying teaching media on students’ achievement in reading narrative text. This study used the experimental design. The population of the study was the second grade of SMP N 2 Selesai. There were sixty students used as sample out of the research taken by randomly from the population of 160 students. This study was conducted with two groups, experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught by using English Animation Movie while the control group by using pictures. The instrument of collecting the data was multiple choice tests. To obtain the result of the reliability of the test, the researcher used the Kuder Richardson formula (KR-21). The result of the calculation showed that the reliability of the test was 0.94, which means that the reliability of the test is very high. The data was analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the analysis showed that tobserved is exceeded than ttable (3.70 > 2.00) at the level of significance of 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 58. The result of this study showed that the students’ achievement taught by using English Animation Movie in reading narrative text is higher than those who taught by using pictures