Bringing Student-Generated Comic as a Collaborative Project into the Extensive Reading Program

Dian Novita; Slamet  Setiawan

doi:10.21070/jees.v5i1.366

(1) * Dian Novita English Education Study Program, Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo
Indonesia
(2) Slamet Setiawan Graduate School, Universitas Negeri Surabaya
Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21070/jees.v5i1.366

Abstract

The study looks into the possibility of bringing student-generated comic as a collaborative project into the Extensive Reading program. It focuses on the students’ preferences and difficulties in creating a student-generated comic based on their perceptions. For this purpose, the study involved 30 students of the English Education Program of Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo, who had taken the Extensive Reading program. The questionnaire is employed to assess their perceptions. The results of the study show that creating a student-generated comic is a pleasurable doing, an exciting activity, and a fun way for the EFL learners to study English. Moreover, students consider that student-generated comics can improve students’ language production creativity, contribute an educational resource for other students, and arouse their creativity. Concerning the development of students’ language proficiency, creating comic corresponds to the novel they have studied, affects their English fluency, and improves their writing skills. Astonishingly, only a few students believe that it is not easy to draw and illustrate a comic, compose stories and characters, and reveal the novel’s aspects into a comic.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Creating a student-generated comic collaboratively as one of Extensive Reading activities is enjoyable, and it is a motivating activity for the students to learn and practice English.
Generating the comic collaboratively can affect students’ English fluency, understand the novel’s content quickly, and improve their writing skill.
It is important for combining the curriculum of adult ESL with educational comics to promote the students’ skills and concepts involved in a broad range of literacy.

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Author Biographies

Dian Novita, English Education Study Program, Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo

Dian Novita is a student of Doctoral Study Program at Universitas Negeri Surabaya. She is an English Language Education Program teaching staff of Faculty of Psychology and Education at Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo, Indonesia. She obtained her Master’s Degree of Language and Literature Education of English at Universitas Negeri Surabaya in 2011. Her research interest is Education and Applied Linguistics (English Teaching).

Slamet Setiawan, Graduate School, Universitas Negeri Surabaya

He was born in Jombang and has been teaching at Universitas Negeri Surabaya since 1994. He obtained his MA at the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2001 and his PhD at the University of Western Australia in 2013 (both in Linguistics). His interest is in Linguistics (Language and Society) and Applied Linguistics (English Language Teaching).

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