Students are very interested in comics since most of them read the comics to learn their native languages when they were young. Using comics again for them to learn a new language can also be interesting and effective. Reading comics can be fun and students can read it with less pressure with the short dialogues comparing with a long paragraph. It can be attractive not only to younger learners, adults learners also will be interested about making a story into comics.
Comix provides a very good idea of allowing students to create their own comics with their choice of characters and the dialogue. It is very handy to create a comics through comix. I was surprised to find that to make a story into comics can be so easy and interesting with Comix. Every character that can be chosen by a click of the mouse. There are many different choices for people to choose from, which provides diversity of student's work. And the size and the position of the images and the bubbles can be changed in the picture easily. It offers a large free space for students to be creative and productive.
By collecting and sharing students' works in front of the class can be a great activity for them to do the role play or storytelling. They can practise their pronunciation and speaking skills with their comics. Since most of the dialogues in the comics are conversational which can be heard in daily life. It will be good for students to pay attention to the daily conversations with native speakers after them tried using comics to make the story. They may want to make their story and dialogues more natural and more native-like.
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