Improving Reading Skills through Digital Islamic Comic Strip: Students’ Perspective

Abstract

This study purposed to reveal the students’ perspective about comic strip in order to improve their reading skills. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story. Digital islamic comic strip was choosen as the media in this study and it was taken from https://islamiccomics.org/. A descriptive quantitative method through a questionnaire was used as data collection. The questionnaire was distributed to thirty six of high school students to get the feedback of their perspective and feeling after reading a story through the comic strip. The result findings revealed that the students’ perspective was positive to the using of comic strip. They found that it was a new way to read and comprehend a story. It was also fun, interesting and easy to understand the story through the sequencing pictures. They stated that they would continue to learn English especially reading text or story through comic strip.