THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING PICTURE IN IMPROVING THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO COMPREHEND FUNCTIONAL TEXT IN SMP N 3 PARIANGAN

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ABSTRACT

This research was aimed to find out the effectiveness of using picture in improving the second year students’ ability to comprehend functional texts of reading at SMP N 3 Pariangan. The total number of the population was 68 students and the samples were two classes (VIII.2 as class control and VIII.3 as class experiment). The number of the samples members was 32 students. This research was done for one month. In collecting the data, the researcher used reading test and questionaire. Before giving the post-test, the test was tried out to the students out of the sample. The reability of the test was 0.75 and it was categorized very high (see appendix 9). The post-test and questionaire was given after doing teaching process for eight times. The data were analyzed by using t-test. The result of the analysis showed that t-calculated was 3,66 (see appendix 15). The value of t-table was 2,04 at the level of significance .05 and degree of freedom 30 (see appendix 15). It means the hypothesis that picture are effective to improve students’ ability to comprehend functional texts is accepted. The researcher concluded that the use of picture in improve students’ ablity to comprehend functional texts gives a statistically significant effect to improve students’ ability to comprehend functional texts.

Key words: Picture, Reading comprehension, Functional text