PENGEMBANGAN MEDIA KOMIK UNTUK MENINGKATKAN MOTIVASI BELAJAR DAN KETERAMPILAN MEMBACA PEMAHAMAN SISWA KELAS IV
Authors: Budiarti Wahyu Nuning , Haryanto Haryanto 
Published: July 2016

<p class="Standard">Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan produk media pembelajaran berupa media komik pembelajaran yang dapat meningkatkan motivasi belajar bahasa Indonesia dan keterampilan membaca pemahaman siswa kelas IV SD. Penelitian pengembangan ini menggunakan langkah yang dikembangkan oleh Borg &amp; Gall. Model Pengembangan tersebut dikelompokan menjadi: (1) melakukan penelitian pendahuluan dan pengumpulan informasi, (2) melakukan perencanaan, (3) mengembangkan produk awal, (4) melakukan uji coba lapangan awal, (5) melakukan revisi produk awal untuk menyusun produk utama, (6) melakukan uji coba utama, (7) melakukan revisi produk utama untuk menyusun produk operasional, (8) melakukan uji lapangan operasional, (9) melakukan revisi produk akhir, (10) deseminasi. Subjek uji pelaksanaan lapangan pada kelas eksperimen sebanyak 27 siswa dan pada kelas kontrol sebanyak 27 siswa. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) media komik pembelajaran layak digunakan dalam pembelajaran. Menurut ahli materi dan ahli media pembelajaran produk media komik<em> </em>berkategori “baik”. (2) terdapat peningkatan nilai pretest terhadap posttest motivasi belajar bahasa Indonesia dan keterampilan membaca pemahaman antara kelas kontrol dan kelas eksperimen. Keseluruhan uji dan hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa media komik pembelajaran berpengaruh secara positif dan signifikan terhadap motivasi belajar bahasa Indonesia dan keterampilan membaca pemahaman siswa.</p><p class="Standard"><strong>Kata Kunci: </strong> media komik pembelajaran, motivasi belajar bahasa Indonesia, keterampilan membaca pemahaman</p><p class="Standard"><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p class="Standard" align="center"><strong><em>DEVELOPING COMIC BOOKS FOR STUDYING TO INCREASE MOTIVATION TO LEARN AND READING COMPREHENSION FOR THE FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL</em></strong></p><p class="Standard"> </p><p class="Standard" align="center"><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p class="Standard"><em>This research aims to : develop an comic books that is eligible for the fourth grade students of elementary school, (2) reveal the effectiveness of the developed comic books toward enchancement of student motivation to learn, and enchancement of student reading comprehension. This developmental research refers to the model from Borg &amp; Gall, consist of (1) research &amp; information collecting, (2) planning, (3) develop preliminary form of product, (4) preliminary field testing, (5) main product revision, (6) main field testing, (7) operational product revision, (8) operational field revision, (9) final product revision, (10) dissemination and implementation. The subject of the operational field testing consists of 27 as the experimental class and 27 students as the control class. The research finding reveals that the comic books is proper for the fourth grade students of elementary school.(1) According to the expert of the material and the expert of the educational media, the comic books product is categorized into “good”. (2) There is an increase in the pretest to posttest at control class and experimental class of motivation for study after using comic books, and reading comprehension after using comic books for study. Overall test and the results showed that the comic books take effect that positive and significant to student’s motivation to learn and student’s reading comprehension.</em></p><strong>Keywords: </strong><em>comic books for studying, motivation to learn,</em> <em>student’s reading comprehension.</em>