Comic books to improve reading skills in English language learners.

Abstract

Reading comprehension is one of the aspects that involve reading skills to master it and one of the aspects that became hard to develop in students, due to the limited vocabulary owned at the beginning of the learning process or even the enthusiasm while working in a reading exercise. In this way, comic books are strategies that focus on learning new words in context due to the visual content which is presented in an understandable format that is helpful to maintaining the natural reading flow, allowing the students to keep focus while reading and developing the reading comprehension. This research used qualitative methodology, which is essential to understand sociological processes and phenomena, it is qualitative because through the use of it the investigator can analyze non-quantitative data such as experiences and allows to reflect on the data collected. At the end of the research can be concluded that the use of comic books is positively accepted as a pedagogical tool, and it is interesting for students in order to practice reading skills