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[joe_doufu]

My students are often ignoring me and drawing cartoons during class, so I decided to try a creative writing project today and had every class draw comic books (with ENGLISH! i had to remind them more than a few times). I learned a lot today.

First, I learned that most of my students are great at reading and pronouncing English but when it comes to forming language themselves some are very very limited. In fact I concluded that one class is using entirely wrong textbooks... even though they'd seemed just right before.

Second, I observed that the Korean style of "repetition" education even extends to "fun" stuff. My elementary kids were very creative and had a lot of fun writing stories, but my middle school teenagers mostly took comic books from their bags and tried to copy the pictures exactly. It was so slow most of them couldn't finish six "blocks" in a 40 minute period, while their younger siblings easily filled up a dozen.

[mindmetoo]

Yeah I incorporated a drawing portion into my lessons. Breaks up the class and lets them flex their lil and mostly absent creative muscles. The boys are mostly concerned with violence, guns, knives, and nuking Japan. And ddung. The girls are the only creative ones.

[Captain Corea]

Here's some "similar" fun I had.

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=36221&highlight=captain+corea+comic

[Bulsajo]

Creation vs. Repetition?

Aw, crap I was hoping this thread was about Creation vs. Evolution...

[joe_doufu]

[peppermint]

another thing you can do is just photocopy pages from the kids comic books and then white out the dialogue. Chances are that writing something new will be much easier than trying to translate the original.