Comic Strip and Geoforensics in CLIL English Language Classes – Students’ Attitudes

This paper has discussed the concept of integrating comic strips and geoforensics into CLIL English classes at university level and its potential and relevance to modern-day university education. Our assumption is that comic strips can greatly help to embrace geoforensics as an emerging interdisciplinary art that offers a whole new and previously unthought-of perspective to young geological engineers. As modern teaching is more demanding than that which relies entirely on the traditional pedagogical system, language teachers today, especially CLIL teachers, need to include as many different sources as possible in organizing teaching process. Motivation is, among other advantages, the reason why we think it is advisable to occasionally include comics in the learning process. At the end of this study, we conclude that the comic strips, despite their advantages, are not sufficiently analysed and represented in teaching. The research suggests that students recognize both linguistic, scientific, and aesthetic values of a comic strip, but are not sufficiently familiar with the possibility of including ethical aspects or logical reasoning in this new media of teaching. Raising the teacher’s awareness of the need for introducing comics at all teaching levels of university study is yet to be analysed, and requires careful planning in order to be successfully achieved.