The Use of Comics to Allow Creativity and Promote Higher Order Thinking Skills

AbstractThe study aimed to find out the effect of the use of comics on 11th elective program graders of SMAN 2 Cianjur in their Narrative text understanding performance as well as their attitudes towards it. The results show that visual images in form of student-generated comic strips allow for creativity where students can express ideas by images combined with text, and promote higher order thinking skills (analyzing, evaluating, creating) through student-centered work. From its findings, the study concluded that comics is: 1) effective for constructive activities such as writing and speaking and 2) benefitted slow learners as they can take advantage of visual guide to practice target-language use.Keywords: Comics, Narrative, higher order thinking skill