Computer-assisted Language Learning teaching

domingo, 24 de abril de 2011

Teaching with Comics

What are Comics?

Comic books; is the pulpy-papered, saddle-stapled mixture of art and story. The alter ego of the comic book is the graphic novel, which is also a medium in which stories are told through both text and pictures, comics publishers are collecting multiple issues into single volumes, and comics writers are responding with more ambitious and artistic story arcs that spread across many issues.

 Comics    &   Education

 Reading and writing skills may be improved through using comics and cartoons in the classroom. A recent explosion of academic interest in comic books and graphic novels has stirred the creation of comic’s curricula nationwide. Several colleges and universities are now offering courses in comic’s literature, and high school teachers are exploring graphic novels as a new way to stimulate young readers’ interest in literature. The National Association of Comics Art Educators is producing exercises, study guides, and handouts on comics in the classroom. Comics have been the subject of a national best-seller.

    
A Word about Multiple Intelligences
The comic strip making workshop is also a way to reach students with many different learning styles. Comics inherently speak to a multitude of Howard Gardner's "Multiple Intelligences." Merely by its storytelling nature, a student can make a story about any subject that he or she is interested in; cartoon character exploration appeals to the learning tendencies of any child.
  
COMIC BOOK CREATOR: Is an interactive tool that supply the information you want in this  provide people, animals, thought and speech bubbles, props, and backdrop as well  invites Students to compose their own strips for a variety of context. 

Comic Strip Creators : is aimed to teaching art-related skills of drawing and sequencing drawings by creating comic strips..eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Arts/Visual_Arts/ARA0005.html


Character and Plot Development Through Comics

Students are introduced to character, plot development, point of view, and tone through the use of comic strips. Students identify these four attributes in the comic strip and present their findings to the class




4 comentarios:

  1. Teaching with comics is a very interesting strategy because it is an excellent way to catch children´s attention and also, with it, you can facilitate a significant learning. Nowadays, as teachers, we have to use all possibles tools to improve ours teaching techniques and this one(Teaching with comics) is an easy and effective one.

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  2. Comics are useful tools to teach in a classroom because they stimulate students and readers to be interested by literature, books, writing, reading, etc

    Ruth Méndez

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  3. Using comics for teaching is a very funny tool because they make students feel interested in what they are learning. In the case of learning a language, comics can improve several skills such as reading and writing, for example, with comic strips, students can practice creating their own stories, and that is a way for improving the writing skill. with respect to the reading skill, a book or novel which contains comics are more appealling for readers than those which don't.

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  4. This is an alternative way of introducing realia intro the classroom and let our students include their tastes. Children will definitely love the uses of comics into the classes because who doesn’t love them? They include images with fantastic stories that let the imagination fly and encourage our students read which the hardest part of our job is, but the problem is that we have them read boring things, but in this way they will enjoy the reading and ask for more.

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