THE EFFECT OF USING TEACHING MEDIA ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING NARRATIVE TEXT.

THE EFFECT OF USING TEACHING MEDIA ON
STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING
NARRATIVE TEXT

A THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan

By:

ICHA RAMADHANI BUTARBUTAR
Registration Number. 2103321018

ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
2014

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The writer would like to acknowledge her countless thanks to the Most
Gracious and the Most Merciful, Allah SWT who always gives her the best of this

life that indeed there is no doubt about it and the blessings to the researcher so that
she can accomplish this thesis from the first page to the last page.
The writer would like to take her opportunity to express her deep and
sincere gratitude to the following:
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Prof. Dr. Ibnu Hajar Damanik, M.Si., Rector of State University of
Medan.
Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum, the Dean of Languages and Arts Faculty.
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., the Head of English Department and
also her Academic Consultant, Rika, S.Pd. M.Hum, the Secretary of
English department, and Dra. Masitowarni Siregar, M.Ed., the Head of

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English Education Study Program,.
Prof. Dr. Busmin Gurning, M.Pd., her Thesis Consultant, for the
precious time on giving the precious advices and guidance.
All Lecturers who have taught her in this English Department, for
giving knowledge, advices and amazing study experiences.
Drs. H. Adnan, the Principal of SMP Negeri 2 Selesai and the English
Teacher for giving permission and helping the writer to conduct this

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research.
Muchtar Butarbutar and Yati Gurning, her beloved parents, who
always give her everlasting love, affection, prays and hard works. She

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loves them to the moon and back.
Her dearest friends of Extension B 2010; Asri, Fitri, Vira, Misida,
Murni, Tiar, Yeni, Yusniar, and the rest members of Extension 2010

for lovely friendship for years, then Vivi, Ayu, Suci Muslihani
Dalimunthe, Kurniawan Novian Putra, for their supports, guidance and
prays. Yaya, Ari, Risqa, for lovely help and guidance. She is proud to
have them. Her beloved friends Rayhan Rahman and Elvida Yani

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Nasution, for the friendship they have. Thanks God it has been 8 years
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already.
Her nicest students of SMPN 3 Tanjung Pura, who had inspired the
researcher to create the title of this study, and the most memorable of
Udiners, PPLT SMPN 3 Tanjung Pura 2014, for experiences they ever
had together.

The writer hopes this thesis will be useful for those who read it, especially
for the student of English Department.
Medan,

September 2014

The Researcher,

Icha Ramadhani Butarbutar
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ABSTRACT

Butarbutar, Icha Ramadhani. 2103321018. The Effect of Using Teaching
Media on Students’ Achievement in Reading Narrative Text. A Thesis. English
Department. Faculty of Languages and Arts. States University of Medan.
2014.

This study was investigating the effect of applying teaching media on students’
achievement in reading narrative text. This study used the experimental design.
The population of the study was the second grade of SMP N 2 Selesai. There were
sixty students used as sample out of the research taken by randomly from the

population of 160 students. This study was conducted with two groups,
experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught by using
English Animation Movie while the control group by using pictures. The
instrument of collecting the data was multiple choice tests. To obtain the result of
the reliability of the test, the researcher used the Kuder Richardson formula (KR21). The result of the calculation showed that the reliability of the test was 0.94,
which means that the reliability of the test is very high. The data was analyzed by
using t-test formula. The result of the analysis showed that tobserved is exceeded
than ttable (3.70 > 2.00) at the level of significance of 0.05 with the degree of
freedom (df) 58. The result of this study showed that the students’ achievement
taught by using English Animation Movie in reading narrative text is higher than
those who taught by using pictures.
Keyword : Using Media, Reading Narrative Text.

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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1.1 Students’ Accumulated Score of Grade VIII-A ......................................2
Table 2.1 The Advantages and Disadvantages Using English Animation Movie
and Pictures ............................................................................................39
Table 3.1 Research Design .....................................................................................41

Table 3.2 Procedure of Treatment for Experimental Group ..................................44
Table 3.3 Procedure of Treatment for Control Group............................................35

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LIST OF APPENDICES

Appendix A The Score of Pretest By The Students of Experimental Group .........61
Appendix B Score of Pretest By The Students of Control Group..........................62
Appendix C The Calculation of Reliability ...........................................................63
Appendix D Calculation of T-test .........................................................................66
Appendix E T-table Distribution ...........................................................................70
Appendix F Reading Test ......................................................................................71
Appendix G Lesson Plans ......................................................................................75
Appendix H Answer Sheets .................................................................................145

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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

A. The Background of the Study
English is one of the foreign languages for Indonesian students that
become one of important lesson which is available in school since kindergarten
level until University level in order to compete globally. English is considered as
a difficult subject for the Indonesian students, because English is completely
different from Indonesian language being looked at from the system of structure,
pronunciation and vocabulary. English teaching involves of four language skills,
they are listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Students find some difficulties in the process of learning grammar,
vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation in the same time while learn English, more
over with the conventional method that teacher applies in the class. In this case in
English word, they may be confronted by words that are totally unfamiliar with
them and their problem is they have to mastery the whole skills; listening,
speaking, reading, and writing.
From the fourth skills, reading is the most complex one to master. As
Brown (2004:185) states that reading arguably the most essential for success in all
educational context, remain a skill of paramount importance as we create

assessment of general language ability. The first point to be made about the
reading process is reading comprehension. Knowledge is the basic element for
comprehension.

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Reading is the process of extracting meaning from a written text or printed
text. It is assumed that readers can comprehend and respond to what is read. The
readers must be able to translate the written words into meaningful language.
Based on the phenomenon where the researcher did observations to
students in SMP N 2 Selesai, Langkat usually get bored to learn reading, because
in the language learning, the teacher still focuses on learning independent style;
the students just read the story by themselves and answer the questions afterwards
correctly.
The ability to comprehend story seems so low with that learning style. The
writer attaches the students’ score in two semesters, academic year 2013-2014
below. The Minimum Criteria Mastery (Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimum/KKM) is
70.

Semester

Score

Students

Percentage

Mean

1st Semester 2013/2014