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Can the use of web‐based comic strip creation tool facilitate EFL learners' grammar and sentence writing?
Author(s) -
Kılıçkaya Ferit,
Krajka Jaroslaw
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2012.01298.x
Subject(s) - the arts , grammar , comics , sentence , library science , computer science , linguistics , visual arts , art , artificial intelligence , philosophy
Both teacherand learner-made computer visuals are quite extensively reported in ComputerAssisted Language Learning literature, for instance, filming interviews (Gromik, 2006; HansonSmith & Marzio, 2006), soap operas (Alm, 2006, 2008) or mini-documentaries (Brooke, 2003), creating storyboard projects (Hazzard, 2006), authoring podcasts and vodcasts (Stanley, 2006), designing digital stories (Alexander & Levine, 2008; Banaszewski, 2002; Skinner & Hagood, 2008; Tendero, 2006). Such student-made digital assets are used to present to their classroom peers for discussion and feedback. Teachers also might take advantage of the digital format of learner-made assets to build their classroom libraries with highly interesting, appropriately leveled texts for students to read during independent reading in the readers’ workshop. Finally, children and adolescents could share their digital materials online and participate in broader digital, global communities that might include children and adolescents with similar backgrounds and experiences.