1 A. Background of the Study
As every body knows, reading is one of the important skills in learning besides listening, speaking and writing. The fundamental goal of reading activity is knowing enough science concept and knowing the language (Kustaryo, 1988:1). It is a cornerstone for a child’s succeses in school and indeed, throughout life. Without being able to read well, the opportunities for personal fulfillment and job succes inevitably will be lost. Therefore, the students should be given reading as one of the skills to master. In reading the students are expected to have a competence of comprehending and understanding the text.
information and ideas which can enrich the students’ vocabulary and knowledge.
Teaching reading in junior high school can be done in many ways. Teaching reading for adolescent learners or junior high school students must be different from elementary school. It is because of their characteristics of psychological background. Peer approval may be considerably more important for the students than the attention of the teacher which, for younger children, is so crucial (Harmer, 2002: 39). So it is so important for considering their classmates as the motivation in deep learning of improving teaching learning process of reading. Harmer (2002: 39) states that Students must be encouraged to respond to text and situations with their own thoughts and experience, rather than just by answering questions and doing abstract learning activities”. English teacher must give them tasks which they are able to do, rather than risk humiliating them.
Based on the problems, the writer chooses the comics as the media in teaching reading comprehension to solve. The writer’s reasons for choosing comics as media in teaching reading comprehension are comics have interesting pictures so that the students are interested in reading comics. The language of comics are easy to understand.
Based on the explanation above the researcher is interested in the implementating of teaching reading using comics so that the writer conducts the research entitled “INCREASING STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION BY READING COMICS AT THE SEVENTH YEAR OF SMP PGRI KEDAWUNG, SRAGEN.
B. Problem Statement
In this research, the writer formulates the problems as follows:
1. How is the implementation of teaching reading by using comics to the at seventh year student of SMP PGRI Kedawung, Sragen?
2. How is the result of teaching reading by using comics to the student at seventh year of SMP PGRI Kedawung, Sragen?
3. How is the student’s response to the method implemented? C. Limitaion of the Study
D. Objective of the Study 1. General objective
In general, this study aims at increasing student’s reading comprehension by reading comics at seventh year of SMP PGRI Kedawung, Sragen.
2. Specific objective
This study is to;
a. describe the implementation of teaching reading by using comics to the student at seventh year of SMP PGRI Kedawung, Sragen. b. describe the result of teaching reading by using comics to the
student at seventh year of SMP PGRI Kedawung, Sragen. c. know the students’ response to the method implementation. E. Benefit of the Study
In this research, there are two kinds of benefits, namely: theoretical and practical benefit.
1. The Theoretical Benefits :
a. The result of this research will enrich the theory of teaching reading comprehension by reading comics.
2. The Practical Benefits
a. The result helps the teacher increase the students reading comprehension.
b. The result can help the students increase their ability in comprehending text.
F. Research Paper Organization
The writer organizes of this research paper into five chapters as follows:
Chapter I is introduction. It covers the background of the study, problem statement, objective of the study, limitation of the study, benefit of the study and research paper organization.
Chapter II is review of related literature. It consists of previous study, notion of reading, notion of reading comprehension, reading skills and strategies, principle of teaching reading, notion of comics, procedure teaching reading, advantages reading comics, theoretical framework, and action hypothesis.
Chapter IV deals with the data analysis, it is the implementation of the research and the result of the study.
Chapter V presents conclusions and suggestion.
