On Language 8/3: Using cartoons to teach ESL
No joke: Comic strips aid in learning, teachers say
Chicago Tribune
August 3, 2005
By Nathan Bierma
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Comic strips have to deliver their language in clean, powerful chunks. The cartoonist doesn’t have room for long, elegant sentences to convey meaning. A cartoon’s combination of pictures, vocabulary and phrasing makes it ideal for students learning English, Dahbany-Miraglia says.
“I use the cartoons to help them learn how to phrase in English,” she says. “You don’t learn to write by writing words. You learn by writing phrases.”
Posted by Nathan Bierma on 08/03 at 09:24 AM
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