New Media in Foreign Language Education

Task 7: Teaching Grammar with Comics in Class

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The benefit of teaching subject matters with comics for illustration as well as that students can create their own comics is shown below.
Advantages:
  • The tool provides New Learning with Media.
  • Students can work in teams and are active.
  • The creativity of students is improved.
  • Students internalize new subject matters within interesting and funny teaching methods.
  • Nearly every grammar topic and also other topics can be learned by working with comics.
  • The tool provides follow up tasks; maybe a series of stories with different grammatical features.
  • The tool can also be used interdisciplinary.
  • Easy to handle from the 5th grade onwards.
Click on the comic above and you see the original web site where you can create your own comic. The tools for creating your comic with bitstrips.com can be seen below. Therfore, you can choose between different characters, scenes, furnitures, backgrounds and many more.

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