IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SKILLS OF WRITING SHORT VERSION OF NARRATIVE TEXTS BY USING COMIC STRIPS FOR THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SCIENCE CLASS OF MAN YOGYAKARTA II IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013

Kamalia, Rifa Eliya (2015) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SKILLS OF WRITING SHORT VERSION OF NARRATIVE TEXTS BY USING COMIC STRIPS FOR THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SCIENCE CLASS OF MAN YOGYAKARTA II IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.

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Abstract

This research is aimed at improving students’ skills of writing narrative texts for the eleventh grade students of MAN Yogyakarta 2 in the academic year of 2012/2013 through the use of comic strips.This research was an action research. The steps of this research were reconnaissance, planning, conducting action and observation, and reflection. This study consisted of two cycles. Both cycle conducted in three meetings. In doing the research, the researcher involved 34 students of Science Class Grade XI, one English teacher as the collaborator and the researcher herself. In this research, there were two kinds of data, qualitative and quantitative. The first data were qualitative. To obtain the qualitative data, the researcher conducted observation, interviews, testing and evaluating students’ writing. The qualitative data were in the form of field notes, observation checklists result, interview transcripts, and students’ writing. Meanwhile, the quantitative data were presented in the score of the students’ writing. The validity of the data was obtained through process validity, outcome validity, democratic validity, dialogic validity and catalytic validity. In addition, this research applied the time triangulation and the investigator triangulation to get trustworthiness. The result of this study shows that the use of comic strips as media in the classroom can improve students’ skills of writing narrative texts. Students’ writing problems can be reduced by applying comic strips. The implementation of the comic strips can improve students’ writing show in the result test after the implementation. In the pre-test, students had difficulties in developing the paragraphs and organize their ideas easily in a good chronological order. The media also improve the other writing aspects such as vocabulary and language use. In reference to the students’ writing scores, the gain score of organization aspect is 1.39. The students’ gain score in the content aspect is 1.29. While the students’ gain score in the vocabulary aspect is 1.16 and 1.06 in the language use aspect. Moreover, the majority of the students gave positive responses towards the implementation of comic strips. It made the students enthusiastic on the writing process.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Uncontrolled Keywords: writing skills, comic strips
Subjects: Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Divisions: Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS
Date Deposited: 30 Jul 2015 07:21
Last Modified: 30 Jan 2019 01:26
URI: http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/23959

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