Comic Strips in Teaching Simple Past Tense for EFL Learners

Abstract

Teaching English needs various media and methods to make the students
enthusiastic in teaching and learning process. A lot of media are employed in
teaching and learning process. One of media used in teaching grammar especially
tenses is comic strips. Comic strips tell a story in form of pictures series and text
structures or dialogue. This article aims to find out the effect of using English
comic strips as media in teaching simple past tense. A quasi experimental design
is used in this study to identify the causal impact of an intervention on target
population without random assignment when the treatments were given. The
subjects of this study were the seventh grade students of junior high school.
The finding of t-test obtained was 3.865 which were higher than t-table 2.08.
It means that the comic strips are effective for teaching simple past tense. The
comic strips can be used in teaching other aspects such as storytelling, another
tense, writing and so forth, and also it can be collaborated with the students’
learning style.