Drawings, sketches, doodles: what do they tell us about students' EFL learning?
Résumé
Drawing is not a common activity in academic settings, especially in language learning departments. However, sketching a course or part of a course, could be a good way for students to recall key elements and to put together -create sense out of- what has been studied over a term. This research deals with the visual representations drawn by B2+ undergraduate students of Content and Integrated Learning (CLIL) courses at university in France. Studying what and how students sketched the content of the courses provides a useful insight on what key elements they retained, and how they integrated language learning. Their visual representations were classified according to both form and content. Each category was then analysed to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the different types of representations.
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