In spite of the arguments
teachers, parents, librarians, and critics have raised against students reading
comics, research has demonstrated the effective use of comics in the classroom.
This paper is a review of the literature that justifies how comics have been
used to spark student motivation, heighten vocabulary acquisition, enhance
multiple literacies, and improve multimodal skills during the learning process.
These multimodal skills are essential for reading comics, since readers are
required to make meaning of the visual, audio, and narration features of a
comic. Even though the idea of using comics in the general education classroom
is becoming more accepted, these discoveries still do not answer a vital
question in the field of English Language Learning Pedagogy, which is “Are
comics effective materials to use with English Language Learners (ELLs)?” This
question helps professionals and researchers further explore the legitimacy of
using comics as a tool for teaching and improving language skills. Using James
W. Brown’s (1977) research as a theoretical foundation, experiences that
language learners encounter while reading comics in the target foreign language
are clarified. In addition, further language pedagogical practices, based on
fieldwork and teaching experience with ELLs in public grade schools and
universities in New York City and abroad, are proposed at the conclusion of
this literature review. Such proposed practices are instructional practices from
the following locations: New York, United States; Tsinghua University in
Beijing, China; Chon Buri, Thailand; Traduc Inc. in Santiago, Chile; and Puerto
Bolivar, Ecuador.
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Yayımlanma Tarihi | 31 Ağustos 2017 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 27 Ağustos 2017 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2017Cilt: 3 Sayı: 8 |
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