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4.4 The Analysis of the Journals
Journal is an instrument that is used to find out the students’ response during the teaching learning process.
4.4.1 The First Cycle
Based on the writer’s observation, in the first meeting of the first cycle most of the students’ activity during the teaching learning process was low, they
were simply passive during the activity. They did ask any question about the subject taught. The reason was possibly that they needed to adapt with a new
teaching model. In the second meeting, they started being active gradually. They asked the writer questions and paid attention during the teaching learning activity.
It was caused they had adapted the teaching model by using comic as medium of learning.
4.4.2 The Second Cycle
Based on the students’ response, the use of comic during the learning activity was very helpful to the students. They ask questions frequently about the
subject taught or the story given. The class atmosphere was conducive enough. Most of them were pleasant. The students enjoyed reading the comic and paid
attention carefully during the learning activity. They made the text final copy faster. In this cycle, there was progress in the students’ achievement.
4.4.3 The Analysis of the Questionnaire
In this activity, the writer distributed a questionnaire to add the data. The questionnaire was conducted on April 8, 2009 after doing the third cycle test. It
was responded by thirty four 34 students. The purpose of giving the
69 questionnaire was to support the primary data.
The writer only gave 10 items to be answered. The students were asked to answer with “yes” or “no” or “uncertain for each question.
Question number 1 asked the students whether they found difficulty in learning English, especially writing. For question number 1 twenty seven 27
students 79 who answered yes, seven 6 students answered no 18 and one 1 who answered uncertain 3. Based on the answer of question number 1, it is
clear that the majority of the students 27 or 82 have problems in learning English. The results of the students’ questionnaire can be seen in appendix 8.
Question number 2 asked the students whether they found it difficult to write narrative text before the writer gave the activity. For the question number 2
there were twenty four 24 students 71 who answered yes and eight 8 students 6 answered no, while two2 students answered uncertain. It means
that the students have problems in learning narrative text. Question number 3 asked the students whether they found difficulties to
determine the elements of narrative text, such its social function and its language features. For question number 3 there were fifteen 15 students 44 who
answered yes and nineteen 19 students 56 who answered no. It means that, the majority of the students have not mastered each elements of narrative text
Question number 4 asked the students whether master narrative text is difficult. For question number 4 there were thirty 30 students 88 who
answered yes and two 2 students 6 who answered no and the other two 2
70 students 6 answered uncertain. It means that the students have not mastered
writing narrative text. Question number 5 asked the students whether they have mastered writing
narrative text before the writer gave the activity. For question number 3 there were nine 3 students 9 who answered yes, twenty five 26 students 76
who answered no and five 5 students 15 who answered uncertain. It means that, the majority of the students have not mastered writing narrative text.
Question number 6 asked the students whether they had mastered writing narrative text after the writer gave the activity. For question number 4 there were
thirty 31 students 91 who answered yes, one 1 student answered no and four 2 students 6 who answered uncertain. It means that, the majority of the
students had mastered writing narrative text. Question number 7 asked the students whether the students liked reading
comic. Thirty two 32 students 94 answered yes and two 2 students 6 answered no. Based on the answer, it can be said that most of the students liked
reading comic the writer given. Question number 8 asked the students whether the comic motivated them
to learn English. There were thirty 32 students 94 who answered yes and two 2 students 6 who answered uncertain. It is completely clear that the comic
had motivated the students in learning narrative text. Question number 9 asked the students whether their teacher has ever given
the lesson through certain techniques. For the question number 2 there were ten
71 30 students 88 who answered no and four 4 students 11 answered
uncertain. It means the teacher used regular technique in teaching narrative. At last, question number 10 was aimed to seek the opinion of students
whether or not the program had to be given regularly. There were thirty-one 31 students 91 who answered yes, two 2 students 6 who answered no and
one 1 student who answered uncertain. It is obvious that the majority of students expected the program to be continued.
4.5 The Advantage of Using Comic in Writing Class
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