The use of comic book as a media in teaching reading comprehension to improve students' vocabulary mastery

Desi Purnama Sari,Saiful Marhaban,Sofyan Abdul Gani

doi:10.24815/eej.v12i1.19110

Abstract

Improving vocabulary mastery of students requires creativity in finding some strategies in order that students are motivated to memorize the vocabulary. This research aimed to use a comic book to improve student's vocabulary mastery through reading comprehension. The researcher focused on the use of Snow White comic book in improving students’ vocabulary mastery. The data were collected by doing tests. The tests were divided into pre-test and post-test to see the students’ ability on their vocabulary mastery before and after the treatment, and a questionnaire was used to see the students’ responses toward the approach. The samples are the students of MAN 2 Montasik Aceh Besar, consisted of 40 students who were divided into experimental class and control class. The obtained data were analyzed using descriptive statistics through SPSS Version 22. The result of the hypothesis testing of this research showed that students’ vocabulary mastery was significantly improved. The students’ responses toward the use of comic book to improve their vocabulary mastery were positive and the students showed their interest in reading. Therefore, the use of comic book to improve student's vocabulary mastery through reading comprehension is suggested to be used by teachers to help students in learning and memorizing vocabulary.

Highlights

In this era, students may gain as much information as they want by reading any text that can support their learning
In order to determine the theoretical framework of this study, the research hypothesis is formulated as the following: Ho1: There is no significant difference in vocabulary mastery between students who are taught reading comprehension by using comic books and those who are not taught reading comprehension by using comic books
A null hypothesis (Ho) and an alternative hypothesis (Ha) were determined, they are: (Ho) : There is no significant difference in vocabulary mastery between the students who are taught by using Snow White comic through reading comprehension and those who are not taught by using Snow White comic

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Introduction

Students may gain as much information as they want by reading any text that can support their learning. In order to understand the reading texts, students should have good reading skills. In answering the questions about reading texts in UASBN, students have to comprehend the meaning of every question and text. It means that the students’ reading comprehension skills are the key to solve this problem. Students should have enough vocabulary to interpret the questions and answer them correctly. If the students can understand the whole words in the question sheet, it will be much more useful for them to get a high score

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