It was first time to create comic strips on
the internet! I strongly believe that this type of tool encourages students to
learn a language as well as teachers to prepare for their lessons because it’s
fun and even I, as a future teacher, really enjoyed it!!! A comic strip is a
sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or
form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. (from Wikipedia)
For my
future class with this tool, I will make students create short conversations including
today’s topic, vocabulary, and expressions that they learned. Take my strips
for example. My topic is about a restaurant conversation between a server and a
customer to teach how to order in a restaurant in America. To be specific, I
will show the strip I created first and ask them to read it and think about the
topic, who two speakers are in the conversation, and so on. And then I will
introduce expressions and explain American culture related to restaurant. After
my explanation, I will ask them to create a comic strip in pairs including what
they learned to practice. In doing so, they will be able to talk about the context
and specific conversation that they would like to and, finally, they will be
asked to do role-play based on their strip. I will assess their understanding through
their comic strip and role-play at first and then, in the next class, I will
give some quiz about a restaurant conversation (filling in blanks) or American
culture related to a restaurant (multiple choice). This will lead students not
only to acquire a language but also to have a chance to encounter American
culture.
Students demonstrate an understanding of
cultural and language patterns and norms in American English, including
different regional and social varieties of English.
