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1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
The selection of comic as material hopefully can be an alternative for teacher in teaching writing. In this case, the teacher uses the particular comics,
which are related to the writing subject. Supporting materials can increase students’ interest in learning English. As a result, they will be able to make a
written text well because of their interest in comics. The elements of comic, offers a medium of story telling and visual
entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. Although the comic is written in English, the students of
Junior High School will enjoy reading it for the following reasons: 1
A comic is an interesting material that can entertain the readers. It contains sequence pictures and some short conversations in speech.
2 The vocabulary uses both the pictures and the context, so the students do
not waste their time to look up the meaning of difficult words in a dictionary.
3 The sentence structures, which are used in comics, are quite simple.
They will help students to understand what the sentences mean. The comics used in this paper is the stories of Naruto chapter 239-244 the
choosing of this comic is by the consideration that nearly all students may have familiarized with the characters and families from the cartoon TV shows or its
comic in Indonesia. The writer believes that by giving a comic to read, the students will
obtain some advantages. By using a comic in teaching process, it will, hopefully,
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to stimulate their motivation and give students’ interest in teaching-learning process. It also increases their knowledge and enriches their vocabularies.
1.3 Statement of the problem
The problems that will be discussed in this study are: 1
How is comic implemented in teaching narrative to the eighth grade students of MTs N Brangsong?
2 To what extent is the ability of the eighth grade students of MTs N
Brangsong in writing a simple narrative text based on the comics? 3
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using comics in teaching narrative?
1.4 Objectives of the Study
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