HQ in instructional materials for Spanish teaching /FL

• Grant number: 14/00677-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2014
• End date: July 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Languages
• Principal Investigator: Rosa Yokota
• Grantee: Aline Cristina Polin
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to analyze the presence and the forms of use of comics in didactic materials focused on Spanish teaching on high school. In the present day, isn't easy to catch the teens attention for the Spanish learning. The textbook, principal material used in class, counts with a great quantity of genres; however, even with that variety, the comics are chosen more often by both teachers and students because of your dynamism, language and multiple possibilities of interpretation. Besides, the Spanish teaching is important not only because of Latin America's political and economical questions but also because of your cultural expressiveness and the Brazilian’s craving for interaction in other languages. Therefore, this research aims to contribute to a better use of the comics in didactic materials of Spanish language.