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- Title
Comics as a Powerful Tool to Enhance English Language Usage.
- Authors
Sarada, P. A.
- Abstract
The key to successful communication is intensive listening and keen observation. A lot of English language usage, such as vocabulary, grammatical structure, intonation, accent, and interpretation, is learned easily by listening. New words and expressions are learned easily by reading and listening to simplified language, dialogues, and comic strips. The teacher of English should be judicious in choosing the comics because some of them with idiomatic expressions are difficult to understand. It has been observed that serious and adventurous comics are easy to understand than funny ones. Students who find it difficult to read each word and comprehend the theme in a passage or a story or a narration will find it easy in a medium of comics. Writing a paragraph, writing a set of instructions, writing a set of recommendations, and dialogue writing are taught easily by using comics as a literacy tool. This paper discusses how using suitable comic strips in the teaching and learning process will enhance the vocabulary enrichment, grammatical structures, and the language usage of engineering students.
- Subjects
COMIC books, strips, etc.; ENGLISH language; DIALOGUE; COMPREHENSION; GRAMMAR
- Publication
IUP Journal of English Studies, 2016, Vol 11, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
0973-3728
- Publication type
Article