Hello there, welcome back to my blog!
In this section i will review one of the most favorite journal because the jounal countain materials is about "Comic" . Why i choosing this topic materials? because i love comic especially japan comic a.k.a Manga. Honestly this journal is very interesting, the way the writer tell, the research and anything.
I will tell you about this journal little by little.
Author : Fenti Susilawati
Year : 2017
Publisher : Ejournal UPI
City : Bandung, Indonesia
Tittle : Teaching Writing of Narrative Text Through Digital Comic
The use of digital comic in helping senior high
school students to write narrative text and to find out the students’ perception on the use
of digital comic in teaching writing of narrative text. One way to help student’s problem in
writing narrative text is by using digital comic (Yunus et al., 2015, pp.54-55). Yunus and Friends (2015, p.54) say that digital comic can spur students’ interest to write.
By using digital comic, students can work collaboratively as digital comic can be a great
collaboration tool (Yunus et al., 2015, pp.54-55). This subsequently can improve students’ language skills.
Digital comic can easily transgress onthe definition of comic by McCloud (1993) “juxtaposed pictorial and other images indeliberate sequence” as they may contain
moving images, be accompanied by audio tracks, or even are narratives in true
multimedia (Dittmar, 2012, p.83). Digital comic is a type of comic which is used with a
computer application and has colored pictures, balloon text with dialogue and also
music effect (Kustianingsari & Dewi, 2015,p.3). Moreover, Purnama, Mulyoto, and
Ardiyanto (2015, pp. 20-21) describe a digital comic as a story with some arranged pictures
which is done or published by computer.
Digital comic is a digital media that can be used in the classroom to help the students’
understanding by using pictures in the story (Kustianingsari & Dewi, 2015, p.1). Digital
media has some characteristics (Smaldino etal., as cited in Purnama, Mulyoto & Ardianto,
2015, p.20); first, it is easy to use, because of its digital projector. Second, it is portable, it
can be carried anywhere. Third, the ability to save of this media, digital visual can be stored
on a CD or DVD. The last, the endurance of the media, the digital media can be saved in a
long time.
In teaching writing, a digital comic also gives an important role. Nisa and Al-Hafidz
(2014, p.72) say that comics can motivate the students in learning English, capture and
maintain the learner’s interest (Yang, as cited in Nisa & Al-Hafidz, 2014). In addition,
digital comics are easy to use and their applications may help low achiever learners in
writing as it can motivate the learners to write in English (Yunus et al., 2012, p.57).
Moreover, Comic Life Creator (2016, p.2) says that digital comic is beneficial to learn in
the classroom and not just a fun artenrichment activity. The creator explains that
comics can make the students experience success in their writing. Students transfer
specific elements directly into text-only writing. For example, students learn that
whatever text found in a word balloon is put inside quotes in their text-only writing. By
using digital comic, students have a new publishing medium, and also the documents of
digital comic can be printed, emailed or posted on a website very easily.
