Comic Strips in Teaching Simple Past Tense for EFL Learners

Abstract

Teaching English needs various media and methods to make the students enthusiastic in teaching and learning process. A lot of media are employed in teaching and learning process. One of media used in teaching grammar especially tenses is comic strips. Comic strips tell a story in form of pictures series and text structures or dialogue. This article aims to find out the effect of using English comic strips as media in teaching simple past tense. A quasi experimental design is used in this study to identify the causal impact of an intervention on target population without random assignment when the treatments were given. The subjects of this study were the seventh grade students of junior high school. The finding of t-test obtained was 3.865 which were higher than t-table 2.08. It means that the comic strips are effective for teaching simple past tense. The comic strips can be used in teaching other aspects such as storytelling, another tense, writing and so forth, and also it can be collaborated with the students' learning style.

Utilizing Digital Comics in College Students’ Grammar Class

“…The results are in accordance with the research findings by Cabrera et al (2018) and Al Faruq & Nurhalimah (2018). In Cabrera et al (2018), digital comics from Pixton had proven to be an effective tool to teach as well as enhance EFL grammar because students in the experimental group showed significant increase in their score.…”

“…In Cabrera et al (2018), digital comics from Pixton had proven to be an effective tool to teach as well as enhance EFL grammar because students in the experimental group showed significant increase in their score. While in Al Faruq & Nurhalimah (2018) research, students in experimental group, who were taught grammar simple past tense using comic strips, achieved better in their average score than the control group. This means that comic strips were effective for teaching grammar especially simple past tense.…”

“…Educators can make use of diverse media in teaching grammar. Al Faruq & Nurhalimah (2018) utilized comic strips as media for teaching simple past tense and found out that the media resulted in significant improvement toward students' score. On the other hand, Cabrera et al (2018) had also exploited Pixton as one of comic creator websites to teach grammar and vocabulary.…”

“…According to Al Faruq & Nurhalimah (2018), a lot of pictures made classroom with digital comics interesting. The existance of pictures/images in the digital comics bring a fascinating insight into the students.…”

Comic Strips for Language Teaching: The Benefits and Challenges According to Recent Research

“…Comic strips have similar components when compared to comic books; only they are shorter. When comic books can come in several books for conveying a story or a collection of short stories, a comic strip conveys a single story in a series of well-arranged pictures and textboxes (Al Faruq & Nurhalimah, 2019;Hamidah, USman, & Muhsin, 2015;Humola & Talib, 2016;Rengur & Sugirin, 2019). A comic strip usually takes only three to eight panels to convey the whole story (Budiman et al, 2018;Poai, 2018).…”