THE USE OF THE LION KING MOVIE TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION ON NARRATIVE TEXT: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

Abstract

This research was aimed to enhance the students’ reading comprehension narrative text using The Lion King Movie as alternative media in learning process. Thus research answered three questions (1) to find out the students’ ability in comprehending reading
narrative text when they are taught before using Lion King Movie. (2) To find out the students’ ability in comprehending reading narrative text when they are taught after using Lion King Movie? (3) To find out the significant difference in students’ skills in
comprehending narrative text before and after being taught using Lion King Movie? Researcher used The Lion King Movie as alternative media in teaching Narrative text. The research design of this research was quantitative research design, pre-experimental research design. It was conducted in the form of one group pre-test and post-test design. Moreover, in this research, researcher was put one group and given the pre-test and posttest for getting the result and measured the data used SPSS program for analyzing data. The enhancement of the study was showed when the researcher conducted post-test after
treatment by using The Lion King Movie. The result of t-test was 6.924, if the T-test is compared to T-table with the degree of freedom 31 as stated hypothesis testing; the T-test 6.924 is higher than the T-table 2.040. Therefore, based on the hypothesis testing, Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected, the theory is verified. It means that there was significant different between score of
pre-test and post-test. It can be concluded that the students get good achievement in comprehending narrative text after they were taught by using the Lion King movie. The students’ ability in reading comprehending narrative text were getting improvement significantly, so teaching reading comprehension by using The Lion King Movie as alternative media is effective. The students more enthusiasm and more interested in the teaching learning process using animation movie. From animation movie
students get new vocabularies, ideas, and can easily understand about the story an arrange the event story in reading narrative text.