3.2 Operational Definition of the Key Terms
An operational definition provided a guideline to understand the concepts and the indicators used in this study. The writer focused the terms of the reading
comprehension achievement, and Comics.
3.2.1 Reading Comprehension Achievement
Reading comprehension means the students’ reading skill to understand and
comprehend what the text tells about. The students’ comprehension achievement is shown by the test scores of a reading comprehension test covering the materials of
word, sentence and text comprehension.
3.2.2 Comics
Comics is a kind of pictorial material which can be used as a medium in teaching learning activity. Comics include into narrative genre which tells a series of
event. Generally, comics combines verbal and picture and is a pictorial story which contains several panels of picture series with the text within the bubble inside the
panel.
3.2.3 Narrative Text
Narrative text in this research refers to the type of text which defines as a story about a series of events which happen in sequence and often with one event
related to another. Narrative text is a kind of text which consists of a chronological story to entertain the reader. This kind of text is appropriate with the 2006
Institutional Level Curriculum for the tenth grade of senior high school.
3.3 Research Area Determination Method
According to Frankel and Wallen 2000:112, purposive method is a method employed in choosing the research area because of a certain purpose.
The area of this quasi experimental study was SMA PGRI 6 Genteng Banyuwangi which was determined purposively under the consideration that 1 the
use of comics has never been applied, either as a reading material or teaching media, in the English teaching learning process at that school before, 2 the school Principal
and the English teacher had been given permission to the researcher to conduct the research in that school.
3.4 Research Respondent Determination Method
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