Abstract:
This research was conducted from April 2021 to July in Muadalah Ulya Darussalam Blokagung Banyuwangi for the 2020/2021 academic year. This research aims to investigate the effect of using whiteboard animation on students’ reading comprehension of narrative text in the tenth grade of students Muadalah Ulya Darussalam Blokagung Banyuwangi. This research uses experimental research, the design of this research is quasi experimental with a pre-test post test design.
The population of this research was students of class X, XI, and XII Muadalah Ulya Darussalam Blokagung Banyuwangi which consist of 90 students consisting of 3 classes. The sample of this research is class X students Muadalah Ulya as an experimental class consisting of 30 students who are taught using the whiteboard animation video and no controll class. The experimental class was taught narrative text in 3 meetings. The data colletion technique is pre-test and post-test which consist of 10 multiple-choice questions. Data analysis used hypothesis testing (paired-sample T-test) with the help of SPSS 16.0 for Windows.
Based on the results of data analysis, it is known that the average value of the pre-test in the experimental class is 34.3, the post-test is 76. And the improvement of students from pre-test to post-test is 41.7. The value of sig. (2 tailed) is 0.000. The T-test is lower than 0.05 (0.000 < 0.05), it means that Ha is accepted and H0 is rejected.
The researcher concluded that whiteboard animation video was effective in teaching reading comprehension in the tenth grade of Muadalah Ulya Darussalam Blokagung Banyuwangi for the 2020/2021 academic year. Teaching English is difficult, so to make students interested, teachers must use various strategies in the learning process. Teachers can choose strategies that are appropriate to the situation and topic. Teachers can use whiteboard animation video strategy to teach reading comprehension of narrative text. Keywords: Whiteboard animation, reading comprehension, narrative text