Journal Review : The Result of Research

In this section i will show the result/the advantages of the research

The questionnaire was used in this research instrument in order to know the second aim in this research. The result of questionnaire revealed the advantages and the disadvantages of the  digital comic implementation in teaching writing of narrative text. 

1.    First Advantage

All of the students felt the benefits of using digital comic in helping them writing narrative text. All of the students (100%) agree that teaching writing of narrative text through digital comic can increase their interest.

2.   Second Advantage 

Digital comic makes the material easy to understand. All of the students (100%) confirmed this statement.

3.  Third Advantage

There are 36 students (100%) who justified that digital comic can motivate them to learn.

4.   Fourth Advantage

The digital comic implementation is digital comic can improve their creative thinking ability. All of the students (100%) agree that the use of digital comic in teaching writing of narrative text can improve their creative thinking ability.

5.  Fifth Advantage

The result of the questionnaire informed that 100% of the experimental group have a perception that digital comic can gain their attention.

6.   Sixth Advantage 

digital comic implementation, all of the students (100%) expressed that digital comic can make the students more enthusiastic about learning.

7.   Seventh Advantage 

The last, the result of the questionnaire showed that the students gave the positive response to the implementation of digital comic. Three-quarters of the students (75%) stated that digital comic is appropriate to be used in their age

Furthermore, this research also revealed the disadvantages of the digital comic implementation. For the first disadvantage of the digital comic implementation, there are 5 students (13.9%) of the experimental group said that the use of digital comic in teaching writing of narrative text can make them lazy to read the text without a picture.

The result of the questionnaire showed that there are 2 students (5.56%) argued that the use of digital comic in teaching writing of narrative text can make them speak inappropriately

Then, as the last disadvantage that was found in this research, 11 students (30.6%) of the experimental group told that the use of digital comic is not better than the other media (for example video, audio etc.) for teaching writing of narrative text.

Thus, this research has found seven advantages and three disadvantages of the digital comic implementation in teaching writing of narrative text. These findings were in line with what have been said by the other researchers and expertise

Conclusion

Based on the research questions which have been mentioned in the previous chapter, there are two conclusions made in this research. The first one is the effectiveness of using digital comic in teaching writing of narrative text. The second one is the advantages and the disadvantages of using digital comic in teaching writing of narrative text. The elaboration of each point is given below. First, the digital comic has been proven as an effective media to improve students’ writing ability in writing narrative text. This result was supported statistically by the computation of independent t-test using IBM SPSS Statistics v.24. Moreover, the experimental group scores in post test shown that their understanding of narrative text improved, especially in the content of the text. Second, the questionnaire analysis showed that the use of digital comic in teaching writing of narrative text has the big advantages than the disadvantages. The result of the questionnaire presented that all of the students agreed that teaching writing of narrative text through digital comic can increase their interest, make the material easy to understand, motivate them to learn, improve their creative thinking ability, gain their attention and make them more enthusiastic about learning. In addition,

almost all of the students agreed that the use of digital comic is appropriate for their age. Despite the advantages of digital comic which have been mentioned before, there are also some disadvantages of the digital comic implementation. The result of questionnaire revealed some students agreed that the use of digital comic in teaching writing of narrative text can make them lazy to read the text without pictures and can make them speak inappropriately. Additionally, some of them agreed that the use of digital comic is not better than the other media (for example video, audio etc.) for teaching writing of narrative text.