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THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ DEVELOPMENT OF COMIC BOOKS CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Carlos Eduardo de Araujo Plácido
The elaboration of comic books in English as a second language (ESL) classes may be a very useful tool to help students develop their linguistic, textual and artistic skills. However, the comic books creative writing in English has not been extensively researched in Brazil. In fact, it has not received proper attention from the academia (McCLOUD, 1993; WRIGHT, 2001; LIU, 2004; BAKER, 2011; YILDIRIM, 2013). For these reasons, the main objectives of this research were to investigate if comic books creative writing classes may help students develop (VYGOTSKY, 2004; 2007) their writing. The data were collected in an extracurricular course in the University of São Paulo. Their development was verified in three distinctive moments. In the first moment, the researcher noticed that their concepts about comic books were all broadened. In the second moment, students elaborated more complex creative writing texts. In the last moment, they could use the English language more proficiently.
