USING COMICS IN IMPROVING B1 LEVEL LEARNERS’ PRODUCTIVE SKILLS

Abstract

The article is aimed at presenting data about the conception of Comics and Productive skills, stating the close-knit connection between the two of them. Moreover, the article highlights the significance of comics in the academic process and the ways of lesson organizing by means of comics as preliminary warm-up activities and summative materials for the learners’ with B1 level language proficiency.

Comics are a series of images with which the story is told any history. They are genuine materials, therefore, their use in the English language lesson will allow developing not only grammatical and lexical skills, but also to form speech skills, communicative competence itself, as well as expand the linguistic and cultural horizons of students.

Comics are diverse, but, as a rule, they contain a comic moment, therefore, their use for methodological purposes will have the same effect as games: in a creative and playful way to stimulate actual problems of linguistics and literary studies. The fact that comics have visual content components also contributes to the formation of communicative competence based on them. Comics use words and expressions peculiar to colloquial speech: idioms, abbreviated forms, individual slang phrases, as well as expressions that require background knowledge about culture.