The use of comic strips as a means of teaching history in the EFL class: Proposal of activities based on two historical comic strips adhering to the principles of CLIL

Livia Carolina Ravelo

doi:10.5294/laclil.2013.6.1.1

Authors

Livia Carolina Ravelo Author Instituto Superior del Profesorado Joaquín V. González

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5294/laclil.2013.6.1.1

Keywords:

AICLE, educación bilingüe, cómics, educación de historia, materiales de instrucción.

Abstract

Teaching English as a second or foreign language in a globalised world imposes constant innovations in methodological frameworks and didactic resources. As a consequence, English should be conceived not only as an object of study but also as the vehicular language to access cultural, sociological, historical as well as other sources of information. This paper is intended to show that the use of comic strips can be regarded as a valid resource to teach history in the EFL classroom with CLIL (content language integrated learning) as the methodological framework. To achieve this goal, activities designed around two historical comics on the Jewish Holocaust (Shoah) have been included; these can be used as example and adapted to plan other activities on other historical comics.

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Author Biography

Livia Carolina Ravelo, Instituto Superior del Profesorado Joaquín V. González

Livia Carolina Ravelo is a teacher of general and technical English at the Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado Técnico, UTN (Argentina). She holds a B.A. in English Language from the Universidad de Belgrano (Argentina) and a Master’s degree in Discouse Analysis from the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (Argentina). She also holds an M.A. in the teaching of Spanish and English as a foreign language from the Universidad de Jaén (Spain). She has vast experience in the teaching of English as a foreign language in primary, secondary, tertiary and university level in Argentina and in Israel and has worked as a teacher of Spanish as a foreign language at the Instituto Cervantes de Tel Aviv, Israel. At present, she is a lecturer in Technical English and Academic Writing at the Instituto Superior del Profesorado Joaquín V.González’s Departamentos de Inglés y de Informática e Inglés in Buenos Aires (Argentina).

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