Pengaruh penggunaan media cerita bergambar terhadap peningkatan keterampilan menyimak dan membaca pada anak berkesulitan belajar kelas II SDN Petoran Jebres Surakarta Tahun Ajaran 2009/2010

Sari, Anita Kurniya

Abstrak This research aims to find out the picture-story media use on the improvement of scrutinizing and reading skills in the learning-disabled II graders of SDN Petoran Jebres Surakarta in the School Year of 2009/2010. The independent variable was picture-story media; the dependent variable is scrutinizing and reading skills. The method employed in the research is the experimental one with one group pre test-post test design, in which a group of subjects is exposed to the treatment for certain period of time, and the effect of treatment is measured from the difference of pre test and post test. The population was the learning-disabled II graders of SDN Petoran Jebres Surakarta in the School Year of 2009/2010 as many as 8 students. Meanwhile sample was not used in this research because it’s population is small, so that all children be research subject. Technique of collecting data employed was two types of test: multiple-choice objective test to measure the reading skill and oral test to test the retelling story competency to measure the scrutinizing skill. This research employed non-parametric statistical analysis, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test with SPSS Release 13 aid. From the result of analysis, it can be found that the probability of Z value is 0.11 at significance level (α) of 5%, meaning that H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted. Thus, it can be concluded that there is significant effect of the picture-story media use on scrutinizing and reading skills in the learning-disabled II graders of SDN Petoran Jebres Surakarta in the school year of 2009/2010. And the hypothesis stating that there is a positive effect of the picture-story media use on scrutinizing and reading skills in the learning-disabled II graders of SDN Petoran Jebres Surakarta in the school year of 2009/2010 proves to valid. It can be seen from the scrutinizing and reading skills better in the post test than in the pre test.