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addition, a comic strip is made in order to amuse people, to convey a message or to express one’s thought.
b. Criteria of Comic for Use in Class
There are many kind of comic, such as drama, comedy, actor, horror, fantasy, modern, classic, and romance. Consequently, teacher’s choices for comic are varied.
However, finding an appropriate comic for students is not easy job. Teacher can use all kind of comic in the classroom. In choosing a comic to be implemented in the classroom
teacher should consider three aspects. They are context of the story, the language used, and the pictures.
Joo-Eun Choo, wrote down the criteria of comic for use in class as follow:
1. Content of the story should be able to stimulated
children’ imagination and creativity, provide a lesson, help children with their emotional
development, provide a positive view of world, and fill the children’s world view. On the other
hand, the story should not exaggerated ugly behavior to often to create interest for example: a
silly hero, flattery, etc, should not tell social problem such as broken family, social problem
associated with the rich and the poor, etc.
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2. The Language used should avoid impolite
speech, employ proper ways of speech, and avoid using too aggressive words.
3. The Pictures presented should not be too
complicated but friendly to children and should be well structure and bright.
c. The Effectiveness of Using Comic in Teaching English
As one of the media comic can be used in class. The use of comic in classroom activities may serve a lot of advantages. Yang wrote down that the use of
comic can be “motivating” visual, permanent, intermediary, and popular can harnessed in practically any subject and at practically any grade level”.
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This statement shows that comic are valuable to be use in class.
Medina wrote down “because of their visual, attractive, often humorous perspective are highly attractive to most student and usually with a single message
where organized display is easy to read and remember”.
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It can be said that the picture and the words as elements of comic has facilitated students in learning. In
other words, the pictures presented have made the learning easier to students. Through picture and word, student will understand the lesson better. Moreover,
some funny pictures presented makes the teaching learning activities became less threatening to students. Thus, it will have a positive impact on students’
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Yang. G, Comic in Education, 2003, p.1. Taken From: Httphomeearthlink net`~geneyangcomicseduhtml.
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motivation. In addition, through the use of pictures, student will remember the lesson better. Furthermore, by using comic teachers can lead students to learn both
in school and out of school. Besides, many activities can be done using comic. The use of comic in classroom may also enable student to think
creatively. By using comic in variety classroom activities, teacher can encourage students to use the language to creative way. For example: teacher may ask
students to feel in speech bubbles with suitable expression. While they are doing this activity, teachers have to stimulated students to express their idea in a
meaningful way. Through comic student are able to use their imagination to find a match between the verbal description and the visual element presented.
2. The Advantages of Using Comic in Teaching of Reading
This judgments based on the writer experience during teaching English activities on class using comic. After the writer used comic in the teaching of
reading, this time the writer will talk about some advantages about using comic books for reading.
a. The colour picture on it made the students more interest to reading and the mimic and the gesture make the student able to show their emotion.
b. The student can comprehend the stories well and able to show the sequence or events, settings and characteristic of the stories.
c. The student get reading lesson variation. So, the students feel enjoyable, interested and enthusiastic when they get reading lesson.
d. The student can develop another skill such as: speaking, writing, and listening. e. Because comic is more informality, casual, and consumable, student do not
perceive them as a threat.
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f. The language of the comic is easy to understand so it helping student to read.
3. The Disadvantages of Using Comic in Teaching of Reading
a. The student have problem with the meaning of vocabularies. Because, they can’t remember the new
word that they find. b. Less of the vocabulary make the student difficulty to
understand the story. c. Anxious, do not have self confidence and courage
when they have to re-tell the story. d. The teacher have problem with choosing the suitable
articles for the student
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CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND FINDING
A. Research Methodology
1. Place and Time of Study
