The effect of comic strip media on third-grade students’ writing story essay

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effect of comic strip media on the ability to write stories for third-grade students at a private Islamic school in Porong. This research uses quantitative research. sampling with non-probability techniques to obtain 1 class, namely class III, following the data taken by the researchers. The data collection technique used the test method to find out the results of writing essays using a pre-test and post-test to find out how much influence the use of comic strip media had on the ability to write essays. In this study,  the pre-experimental design was used with the one-group pretest- posttest design. The population that became the object of this research  was 20 third-grade students of a private Islamic school in Porong. Based on data analysis using the N-Gain formula, it shows that the  average result of the pre-test is 67.7, and the average result of the post- test score is 85.55. Based on data processing from the Eta Squared test,  it was 0.871 in the pre-test and 0.882 in the post-test. If t 0.14 indicates that this comic strip medium has a significant influence, the results of the paired sample pre-test sig. (2-tailed) in the study are.000, then the decision-making is following the t-test. If the value of sig. (2-tailed) is below 0.05, then there is an increase or a very significant effect on the research variables. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of comic strip media on the ability to write stories by third-grade students greatly affects their writing ability of students.