Developing reading skills through the use of educational comics in ninth-grade students at Javier Loyola high school

Abstract

Educational comics are powerful materials and sources that can beneficial to learners in English classrooms; nevertheless, these materials are not used by English educators because there is a misconception that the content of comics is not appropriate for English learners, especially for teenagers. The objective of this experimental research was to determine the effect that educational comics has on ninth grade students’ reading comprehension skills. The entire classroom was divided into two groups (control and experimental) randomly, and the treatment was carried out only with the experimental group which consisted of doing reading comprehension activities by using educational comics. Also, to collect data, researchers administered a pre-test and post-test to the both groups. After computing all the gathered data into a software, the null hypothesis was refuted and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. As a result, researchers determined that educational comics had a substantial influence on student reading comprehension skills.