The purpose of this research is to know whether the change of students’ achievement in reading comprehension before and after treatment by using Macromedia Flash on descriptive text to the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Pontianak in academic year 2011/2012 significant?This research used quasi-experimental design which the writer conducted two groups; experimental group and control group. The treatments were given three times. The data result showed that the interval mean score of the experimental group in pretest and post-test was11.39, while control group was 1.45.The t-test was higher than t-table, it means that Alternative Hypothesis “There is a significant change of the students’ achievement in reading comprehension on descriptive text after being taught by using Macromedia Flash” was accepted.
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