How to use cartoons in language teaching

This site is useful for producing cartoon strips:

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix.php

And these are a few websites where you can find cartoons for teaching:

http://www.cartoonstock.com/

http://www.glasbergen.com/

http://www.mchumor.com/english2_bframe.html

http://www.borg.com/~rjgtoons/edu.html?PHPSESSID=d5da401c24734ed97ffc07fe4e954245


The following sites are for ideas and theoritical background on the use of cartoons in language teaching:

1. Situational Cartoons to The Teaching of Writing and Its Implication for Foreign Language Acquisition: http://apri76.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/situational-cartoons-to-the-teaching-of-writing-and-its-implication-for-foreign-language-acquisition/

2. Using Humour in the Second Language Classroom: http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Chiasson-Humour.html

3. How to Use Cartoons in the EFL Classroom: http://mx.nthu.edu.tw/~katchen/professional/cartoons.htm

4. Cartoons vs. Comics: http://www.eslbase.com/articles/comics.asp

5. Using cartoons and comic strips: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/language-assistant/teaching-tips/using-cartoons-comic-strips

6. www.eltcm.org/eltc/Download/.../8_parallelpaper_19.pdf

7. http://bettereflteacher.blogspot.com/2007/09/cartooning-your-way-to-english-or.html

8. http://bettereflteacher.blogspot.com/2007/09/cartooning-your-way-to-english-or.html