<![CDATA[English is very important for the people in the world. It is used in many countries and has become an international language. English language has four skills that are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. There are many students that feel bored and never got understanding in learning English. Here, the teacher must be able to choose the correct method and also must be able to think creative and innovative in order that the students never feel bored and more understand in learning especially in reading. The activity of teaching reading is using visual aids. The writer uses pictures as media, with these equipment the students is more interesting in learning process. Because it can improves students’ reading understanding especially in reading comprehension in English. The purposes of the research are to find out the students’ achievement in reading comprehension with using picture as media, to find out the students’ achievement in reading comprehension without using picture as media and to know the comparison between the students’ achievement in reading comprehension with and without using picture as media at the eighth year students of smp negeri 1 sumber. The techniques of collecting data used by the writer are observation, interviewed, and test. In doing the research, the writer uses quantitative approach. It means that the data are obtained and presented by numbers so that they can be measured and interpreted by using statistical analysis. The population of the research is all of the eighth year students of smp negeri 1 sumber. The students who become population consist of 366 students and divided into 10 classes. Every standard class consists of 40 until 43 sudents. In this research the writer takes class VIII.E and VIII.I as the sample. The analysis of the comparison between the students’ achievement in reading comprehension with using picture as media is 87.25. Which is categorized “very good” achieved. And the students’ achievement in reading comprehension without using picture as media is 80.5. Which is categorized “good” achieved. Meanwhile, based on calculation above the score of t test 4.53 and the significant of 5% and df (n-2), while n is 78, so the result of t test is 4.53 higher than t table 1.99. It means that there is significant comparison between X1 and X2 variable.]]>
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