만화를 활용한 초등영어 문자언어 지도의 효과

Cartoons are useful materials for English teaching because they contain plentiful authentic language and prefabricated lexical phrases. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of using comic strips on children's written English development in the elementary school. For this purpose, two classes of the sixth grade were selected, and one of which was taught using comic strips on Kid Chosun Internet Homepage(http://kid.chosun.com). After the 20 week instruction, two classes were compared in terms of students' abilities in written English and affective areas. The results revealed that the experimental group was better than the control group in English abilities, and showed higher selfconfidence and interest in English This study suggests that authentic materials such as English cartoons need to be more widely used in elementary school English classrooms.