The Learning Proverbs Comics For Children

DOI

10.2991/iclick-18.2019.11How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Comics, Proverb, children, and literacy

Abstract

Indonesia still has a low level in literacy. It is proved based on the statistical calculations stated that Indonesia is ranked in 60 of 61 countries. It is inversely proportional compared to the percentage of people who aware of the letters from year to year which is increased. In Indonesia, the majority of children from 6-12 years old already have a reading skill. Yet, it is still not used well because the children’s reading books are not being produced. It also makes children tend to read a book which is not suitable for their age and lead to change their mindsets. Comic is one of the literature works which is considered to have a different type from other literary works. It is presenting picture that illustrates the story line as their characteristic. Therefore, an illustrative comic book can help the development of the imagination, it can provide a model that can be used to develop children's personality. Today, many comics contain the negatives sides that does not appropriate for children, meanwhile comic books should be a facilitators to increase reading interest of children. Thus, there is the concept to develop a proverb comic for children. The main reason of choosing a proverb as the media in comic’s storyline is because every proverbs have a an implicit mesage that is being delivered to the reader and using a comic as the way to help children in understanding a proverbs.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Aftina Aftina
AU  - Dwi Prasetyo Nogroho
AU  - Krisnawa Adi Baskhara
AU  - Novi Eka Susilowati
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - The Learning Proverbs Comics For Children
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Life, Innovation, Change and Knowledge (ICLICK 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 47
EP  - 49
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/iclick-18.2019.11
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