M. Zanu, Wardani. 2018. The Effectiveness of English Comics to Imporeve
Students Speaking Ability in Story Retelling. Thesis, English Education
Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers Training. Advisors: (I). Dr.
H. Husnul Yaqin, M. Ed., (II) Rahmila Murtiana SS. M.A
Keywords : English Comics, Teaching Speaking, Effectiveness
This research was aimed to help the students improve speaking skill with
other strategy compared with conventional strategies. To get the data, the
researcher chose quasi experimental research which need 5 meetings including
pretest, treatment, and posttest for experiment class, 2 meetings including pretest
and posttest for control class.
This research is an Experiment research which conducted in MTs Kebun
Bunga Banjarmasin, VIII grade. Then, the researcher took 20 students from
experiment class, and 20 students from control class. The instrument use to get the
data with story telling test used comics for the media.
The finding showed that the mean score of the pretest of experimental
class was (62,70) and (65,20) for control class. The mean score of the posttest of
experimental group was (70,75) and (64,25) for control group. With the help of
SPSS 22, the researcher found t value of posttest was (2,949) which higher from
critical value df 38. It means significant difference between students who are
taught by using comics in story retelling compared students who are taught
without using comics in story retelling in VIII grade of MTs Kebun Bunga
Banjarmasin.