LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 11 November 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Adapting Comics and Cartoons to Develop 21st Century Learners

Rida Afrilyasanti, S.Pd.
Yazid Basthomi, Ph.D.

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The globalization era has enforced students to have 21st century skills. Students have to be able to obtain communication and critical thinking skills. Therefore, students need to be sophisticated in expressing ideas using multiple communication technologies, not just the written word. Students’ ability in expressing ideas communicatively and critically can be gained only if they accustom to explore their ideas using all their multi modalities. Accordingly, cartoons and comics are considered as a good media for classroom teaching to develop 21st century learners. This research investigates how cartoons and comics enable students to be 21st century learners. The results verify that cartoons and comics helped students to gain their 21st century skills. By having activities using cartoons and comics, students could enjoy their learning and freely exploring their creative and analytical thinking. As the result, students could be at the level to become active, responsive, critical and analytical. Therefore, they can improve their communicative and thinking skills.

Key words: comics, cartoons, 21st century learners

Modernization era has required schools to help students regain their competitive improvements in a quickly changing world. Therefore, schools should be able to provide education that is relevant to today’s world. In order to meet the needs of this era, students have to acquire 21st century skills. Wagner (2006) explains that the frameworks of 21st century skills are digital age literacy, inventive thinking, effective communication, and high productivity. This means that students have to be equipped with the core abilities within those frameworks: ability in understanding multicultural literacy, global awareness, risk taking, personal and social responsibility, and ability in producing relevant products.

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Rida Afrilyasanti, S.Pd.
Sekolah Menengah Atas (Senior High School) Negeri 8 Malang, Indonesia
rida.afrilyasanti@yahoo.com

Yazid Basthomi, Ph.D.
English Department
Faculty of Letters
State University of Malang
Indonesia
ybasthomi@um.ac.id
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