The Use of Comic Strips in Teaching Writing Narrative Text at

SMA Negeri 1 Malang

THESIS

By:

Ninuk Tri Hariati

201210100311118

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

2017

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MOTTO

“ So which of the favours of your Lord would you deny?”

(Ar-Rahman)

“ Yakinlah, ada sesuatu yang menantimu setelah banyak

kesabaran (yang kau jalani), yang akan membuatmu terpana

hingga kau lupa betapa pedihnya rasa sakit.”

( Sayyidina Ali Bin Abi Thalib )

DEDICATION

I dedicated this thesis to :

1. My greatest love ever, Allah SWT and my lovely Prophet Muhammad

SAW which guide me to feel and hold this sweet faith, Islam.

2. My beloved parents, who always give me their endless support, they

are the biggest sources of purely love and motivation to help me

finish this thesis. I can not thank you more to reply their merits :’)

3. My family, my Mak, my brother, my sister, my nieces, my nephews

who bring the cherfulness to me, thank you for your whole support

and pray until I can write down this paper.

4. My advisors who guide me patienly to finish this thesis.

5. All my friends in Kajian Ibadurrahman and B Class. Thank you for

every single memories we have created, and thank you for the

complete package of help, support, motivation, and the cherfulness

that light up my day.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

APPROVAL ............................................................................................ ii

LEGALIZATION ................................................................................... iii

ORIGINALITY DECLARATION ........................................................ iv

ABSTRACT ............................................................................................. v

MOTTO AND DEDICATION ............................................................... vi

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ...................................................................... vii

TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................ viii

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background of The Study ............................................................ 1

1.2. Statement of Problems ................................................................. 3

1.3. Objective of Study ........................................................................ 4

1.4. Hypothesis ................................................................................... 4

1.4.1 Alternative Hypothesis ......................................................... 4

1.4.2 Null Hypothesis .................................................................... 4

1.5. Significance of the Study ............................................................. 4

1.6. Scope and Limitation ................................................................... 5

1.7. Definition of Key Terms ............................................................... 5

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1. Writing ......................................................................................... 8

2.2. Teaching Writing ......................................................................... 9

2.2.1 Technique in Teaching Writing ........................................... 10

2.2.2 Assessment in Writing ......................................................... 11

2.2.3 Teaching Writing at Senior High School ............................. 14

2.3. Narrative Text .............................................................................. 16

2.3.1 The Definition of Narrative Text ......................................... 16

2.3.2 Types of Narrative Text ....................................................... 16

2.3.3 Language Features of Narrative Text ................................... 18

2.3.4 Generic Structure of Narrative Text ..................................... 19

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2.4. Media in Teaching Writing .......................................................... 20

2.5.Comic Strips…………. ................................................................. 21

2.5.1 The Elements of Comics........................................... ........ 22

2.5.2 The Advantages of Comics in Language Teaching.......... 23

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

3.1.Research Design ............................................................................ 26

3.2.Population and Sample .................................................................. 27

3.3.Research Instrument ...................................................................... 28

3.4.Data Collection.............................................................................. 32

3.5.Data Analysis ................................................................................ 35

CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

4.1.Research Findings ......................................................................... 39

4.1.1 The Result of Pre-Test....................................................... 39

4.1.2 The Result of Post-Test........................................................ 41

4.1.3 The Hypothesis Testing..................................................... 42

4.2 Discussion.................................................................................. 43

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

5.1. Conclusion ................................................................................... 46

5.2. Suggestions .................................................................................. 47

5.2.1 For the English Teachers...................................................... 47

5.2.2 For the Next Researchers.................................................... 47

REFERENCES

APPENDICES

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 2.I : Writing Scoring Rubric ..................................................................... 12

Table 3.I : Quasi Experimental Design ............................................................... 27

Table 3.2 : Writing Scoring Rubric ..................................................................... 30

Table 3.3 : Score Conversion .............................................................................. 31

Table 3.4 : The Procedures of Data Collection ................................................... 35

Table 4.1 : The Result of Pre-Test From Experimental and Control Classes ..... 40

Table 4.2 : The Result of Post-Test From Experimental and Control Classes ... 42

Table 4.3 : The Computation of Paired Sample T-test for Testing The

Hypothesis.. ........................................................................................ 43

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LIST OF APPENDICES

Appendix I : Pre-Test .......................................................................... 48

Appendix II : Post-Test for Experimental Class ................................... 49

Appendix III : Post-Test for Control Class ............................................ 54

Appendix IV : Lesson Plan for Experimental Class........... ................... 55

Appendix V : Lesson Plan for Control Class ........................................ 78

Appendix VI : Documentation of Experimental Class.................. ........ 91

Appendix VII : Documentation of Control Class .................................... 93

Appendix VIII : The Students’ Scores From Experimental Class ............ 95

Appendix IX : The Students’ Scores From Control Class.......... ........... 96

Appendix X : The Hypothesis Testing Calculation by Using SPSS

Version 2077 ................................................................ 97

Appendix XI : The Letter of Research.......... ......................................... 99

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