Abstract
STUDENT VİEWS RELATED TO EDUCATİVE COMİCS
The purpose of this study is to identify the students’ views about educative comics that have an important place for creating an entartaining classroom atmosphere. Study has been applied on 50 students in 6th grade in 2013-2014 academic year who are studying at Kara Hasan Pasa Secondary school located in Dörtyol county seat of Hatay province. Case study technique which belongs to qualitative research design has been used in the study and the answers the students gave to seven open-ended questions in the form of semi-structured interview has been resolved through content analysis. These results have been reached in accordance with data obtained at the end of the study: A great majority of students have expressed the opinion that they read comics never before, that they liked the educative comics they have read, that the message wanted to be given through educative comics is presented shortly and clearly, that they identify themselves with the characters involved in educative comics, that educative comic is not as long as the texts in the textbooks, that educative comics should consist of more pages, and that they increase the interest in the course and acquire the habit of reading.
Keywords
Educative Comics, Reading Habit, Textbook.
