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Title: Crossing borders with technology: using graphic novels in foreign language teaching

 

Vol. 2, 2017, pp. 129-138.

DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2017.v02.011

 

Author: N. Berrin Aksoy

About the author: Prof Nüzhet Berrin Aksoy, PhD received her BA, MA and PhD from the Department of English Language and Literature at Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey. Professor Aksoy worked in the Department of Translation/Interpretation at Hacettepe University as a Junior and Senior lecturer and as department chair until she took an early retirement in 2007 and started to work as senior lecturer and department chair in the department of English Translation and Interpretation at Atılım University. Professor Aksoy has researched extensively in the fields of translation studies, English literature, cultural studies and comparative literary studies and published in Internationally-indexed publications such as Babel, and META, Annals of the Ovidius University, Lyuboslovie and FLT of University of Shumen as well as many national refereed journals. Professor Aksoy has also presented papers at International Congresses as invited and key-note speaker. Professor Aksoy is fluent in English and French.

e-mail: berrin.aksoy@atilim.edu.tr

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5716-1962

 

Citation (APA style): Aksoy, N. B. (2017). Crossing borders with technology: using graphic novels in foreign language teaching. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2, 129-138. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2017.v02.011

 

Link: https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2017/SILC_2017_2_129_138_10_EN.pdf

 

Abstract: Graphic novels and comics came into being in the 1930’s as products of the popular culture that developed at an unprecedented pace especially after World War II. This paper explores the role of graphic novels and comics as an alternative to traditional means of language teaching in overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers that exist for the foreign language students at elementary, intermediate and higherlevels. It is argued that since graphic novels and comics are a combination of visual and narrative forms of artistic expression, these forms of literary and cultural production offer themselves as useful tools in the field of language education.

Key words: graphic novel, comics, popular culture, foreign language teaching     

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