The Development of Comics as a Media to Improve Japanese Writing Skill

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201215.024How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Comics, teaching media, Japanese writing, design-based research

Abstract

Students often find it difficult to develop ideas, determine appropriate vocabulary and sentence structure, formulate sentences with the right order, and describe non-text images when they are in the process of writing in Japanese during a lesson. One of the proposed media that can be utilized to overcome these difficulties is comics. Words in comics may take form of guiding sentences containing vocabularies and sentence structures related to the writing theme, while serial images may assist students in formulating an orderly narration. This study discusses the development process of comics as a teaching media for Japanese writing lesson. The method used in this current study is Reeves-model Design Based Research (DBR) consisting of four phases. Phase 1 is the identification of difficulties in learning Japanese writing through a series of interviews. Phase 2 is the development and formulation of comics according to the Japanese writing lesson subject. Meanwhile, Phase 3 is the testing of the previously developed comics to 25 second-semester students of Japanese Language Education Department at a public university. Based on the first testing’s result, the developed comics required improvement in terms of writing appearance aspect. In Phase 4, the development of final comics design was conducted based on the result of analysis in Phase 3. Research findings have shown that comics’ media can be utilized to improve Japanese writing skill. Comics’ media development is not only applicable in writing lesson, but also in other Japanese language lessons such as speaking and reading.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Dewi Kusrini
AU  - Via Luviana Dewanty
AU  - Nadiya Nurhamidah Hidayat
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/17
TI  - The Development of Comics as a Media to Improve Japanese Writing Skill
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 155
EP  - 163
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.024
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