Improving Matthayomsuksa 2 Students’ Writing Skill by Using Comic Strip
Faculty of Education, Mahasarakham University
ABSTRACT
This study aimed to (1) designs the effectiveness of English writing activities by using comic strips with a required efficiency of 70/70. (2) examine the effectiveness indexes of using comic strips to improve writing skills. (3) compare the English writing skills before and after using comic strips . The samples were 50 Mathtayomsuksa 2 students selected by cluster random sampling. The instruments used in the experiment were 3 lesson plans which were emphasized on improving English writing skills by using comic strips and pre-test and post-test. The data were statistically analyzed by mean, percentage, standard deviation and t-test.
The results of this study revealed that English writing activities by using comic strips reached its efficiency of 64.07/61.33. It was lower than the criterion (70/70). The effectiveness index was 0.43indicated that the students could improve their learning at 0.43%.The post-test scores of the students were significantly higher than pre-test scores of the students at the .05 level.
It shows that using comic strips to improve writing skills has achieved goal. Comic strips could help the teachers explore a variety of topics, engender useful grammar and vocabulary exercises, provide a humorous and familiar escape for pupils. And comic strips could help the students improve their writing skills. It was not only sparked the students to write but inspired them to study English.
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