Research Paper
Year: 2021 | Month: December | Volume: 8 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 344-355
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20211243
Modified Digital Comics: An Alternative Way for Enhancing Students Narrative Text Writing Ability
Tri Widioko
Master’s Degree of English Education, University of Lampung, Indonesia
ABSTRACT
One of the countries in the world with the most comic readers is Indonesia. Based on Detik.com, Indonesia as the biggest southeast comic market has more than 6 million active users. This phenomenon becomes an opportunity for applying this media in the classroom. The purposes of this study are to find out the effect of modified digital comic as an alternative way in improving the students’ ability in writing narrative text and what aspect of writing which is influenced by this media. This research used quantitative approach and was conducted to 29 students. For collecting the data, the researcher administered the writing test. This study showed that there was a significant improvement of students who have low proficiency in the English language in writing narrative text after using modified digital comics as a language-learning media. However, the teacher perceived the use of modified digital comics in the classroom as time consuming and impractical.
Keywords: modified digital comic, narrative text, writing ability.
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