THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING WEBTOON ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT

Abstract

This research paper is entitled “The Effectiveness of Using Webtoon on Students’ Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text”. The purpose of this research is to obtain empirical evidence about the effectiveness of using Webtoon to teach Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text and to identify students’ responses in learning reading comprehension using Webtoon to the second-grade at SMP Handayani 1 Banjaran. This study use Quasi- Experimental method. The population of the research is the second-grade of SMP Handayani 1 Banjaran. The sample is 29 students for both classes A and D. The result of the research showed teaching Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text by using Webtoon. With the degree of freedom /Df = ????????1 + ????????2 ? 2 = 29 + 29 ? 2 = 56 at p = 0.05 of two tailed, the critical of it is 2.000. as the value of derived t (to) is bigger than that of the critical t (t-table) = 2.192 > 2.000, the Null Hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) is accepted, stating that there is significant effect of using Webtoon on students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. Additionally, the questionnaire results was almost all of students enjoy learning Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text by using Webtoon.