Research Proposal

English Education Study Program

The Implementation of Line Webtoon to Enhance Reading

Comprehension of The Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 4
Palu
Jasmine Aryanti Retnoningrum – A12119044

Tadulako University 2022

Friday, 23rd December 2022 – 13.30 WITA

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Supervisor Co-Supervisor
Dr. Hj. Sriati Usman, M.Hum Anjar Kusuma Dewi, S.Pd., M.Ed

Reviewer
Dr. Aminah, S.Pd., M.Pd.,
M.Ed.
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BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND OF
OF THE
THE RESEARCH
RESEARCH

Reading is one of the most important skills that should be mastered by the students,
because it can improve their learning ability and general English proficiency.
Reading process includes three processes: (1) letter and word recognition, (2)
comprehension of concepts, and (3) reaction and assimilation of the new knowledge
with the reader’s past experience (Lapp and Flood).
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BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND OF
OF THE
THE RESEARCH
RESEARCH

There is purpose of learning descriptive text according to the syllabus of SMP Negeri
4 Palu, students are expected to be able to applying social functions, text structures,
and linguistic elements of oral and written transactional interaction texts that
involve the act of giving and asking for information regarding the whereabouts of
people, objects, animals, according to the context of its use.
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BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND OF
OF THE
THE RESEARCH
RESEARCH
While when researcher conducted preliminary observation at SMP Negeri 4 Palu,
many students still have problems when studying reading.

Some students' difficulties in reading:

• Lack of vocabulary
• Do not able to get the detail information
• Do not understand the meaning and do not gain the message from the text in
reading materials
The problems will cause a lack of students' ability to summarize and understand the
text.

So that, the purpose of learning descriptive text at SMP Negeri 4 Palu is not in
accordance with the reality that is happening.
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BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND OF
OF THE
THE RESEARCH
RESEARCH

Therefore, to overcome these problems the researcher proposes the idea of using
Line Webtoon which could be effective as a learning media to help students
overcome problems and enhancing their reading comprehension.

Line Webtoon is an online comic which presented many titles with different genres
of stories for free (Line me, 2019). With the use of Line Webtoon as a learning
media, it is hoped that this application can increasing students' reading
comprehension.
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CHAPTER
PROBLEM
PROBLEM STATEMENT
STATEMENT

Can the implementation of Line Webtoon enhance reading comprehension of the

eight grade students of SMP Negeri 4 Palu?

OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH

The objective of this research is to figure out whether or not the implementation of
Line Webtoon can enhance students’ reading comprehension of the eight grade
students of SMP Negeri 4 Palu.
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SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESEARCH

The Further Researchers The Teachers The Students

SCOPE OF THE RESEARCH

The limitation of this research is that the researcher will focus on students’ literal
reading comprehension in descriptive text by using Line Webtoon as a media.
 CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF
LITERATURE
 RELATED LITERATURE

Khairani, A. (2020). Improving Students’

Ziska, I. (2021). Webtoons as an Attractive
Reading Comprehension Through Webtoon
Media in Teaching Reading Comprehension.
Application at MTs Az-Zuhri Tanjung Morawa.
UNNES – TEFLIN National Seminar 4 (1). Page
PhD Thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera
54-62.
Utara.

The similarity : the use of Line Webtoon

The difference : this research use descriptive
text as a topic and use non-equivalent control
group design in conducting this research.
 THE DEFINITION
READING
Reading is an activity to see what is written
(symbols and letters) and understand the LINE WEBTOON
meaning of the contents. Line Webtoon is a combination of the words
In line with Massey and Heafner (2004), in 'web' and 'cartoon' or a digital comic service
order to be able to comprehend a piece of that can be enjoyed online in the form of a
writing, one must be able to understand the website and application.
written word and know what the content
about.

LINE WEBTOON IN READING COMPREHENSION

Most of the students are lazy to read because they regard reading as a complex and
difficult English language skill and cannot understand the meaning of the text.
Hence, using Line Webtoon as a media in teaching reading comprehension could be
an appropriate and recommended media for the teachers to apply in the classroom
for the teaching and reading activity. This method is very easy to be conducted by
the teacher in the classroom, and learning reading comprehension can be more fun
(Setialis et al 2018).
LINE WEBTOON
 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

The students have

difficulties in reading The Implementation of
comprehension Line Webtoon

Students' problem in Line Webtoon can enhance

reading comprehension
can be overcome with the
use Line Webtoon
students’ reading
comprehension
Teaching with comic is fun and
motivating because it gives intrinsic
motivation to learners (Grabe, 2004)
 HYPOTHESIS
HYPOTHESIS

Hypothesis null (Ho)

The use of Line Webtoon does not enhance students reading comprehension.

Alternative hypothesis (Ha)

The use of Line Webtoon enhance students reading comprehension
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RESEARCH
METHOD
 RESEARCH DESIGN
The design in this research is
experimental design.
POPULATION AND
POPULATION AND SAMPLES
SAMPLES
The population of this research are Eight grade
quasi- students of SMP Negeri 4 Palu. The sample of
this research are class VIII-A and VIII-B that
consist of 40 students.

𝐎𝟏 = Pre-test for experimental group
𝐎𝟐 = Post-test for experimental group
𝐎𝟑 = Pre-test for control group
𝐎𝟒 = Post-test for control group
𝐗 = treatment
RESEARCH VARIABLES
The variables in this research are independent
and dependent variable. The independent
variable is Line Webtoon and the dependent
variable is Students’ Reading Comprehension.
 TECHNIQUE OF DATA COLLECTION
In this research the researcher will use pre-test, treatment, and post-test as a technique of data
collection. Data collection can be interpreted as research activities to collect field data necessary for
research and testing hypothesis (Narbuko and Achmadi 2010).
No. Types of the test Number of Score of each Total score
items item
1 Multiple Choice 10 1 10
2 True or False 5 1 5
Question
Total 15

TECHNIQUE OF DATA ANALYSIS

The researcher will count the individual score by using the formula stated by Purwanto (2008). Next,
to count mean score of both groups, researcher will use the formula stated by Hatch and Farhady
(1982:55). After getting the mean score, the researcher will count the individual deviation of
students’ score in both groups. The formula is stated by Hatch and Farhady (1982:55). And then, the
researcher computes the sum of square deviation by using formula proposed by Arikunto
(2006:308). Lastly, in order to find out whether the result of the test is significance difference, the
researcher apply the formula proposed by Arikunto (2006:349).
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