Creating Cartoons in Teaching with International Experts

To enhance the professional capacity and practical skills for academic faculty and graduate students in the English language program, on the afternoon of January 24, the Graduate Training Institute of UEF organized an academic seminar on the topic “Creating cartoons for the classroom.” The seminar introduced new approaches to personalizing teaching materials through visual language, contributing to the enrichment of teaching methods in language education.

Enhancing Creative Teaching Capacity with New Methods

The seminar was led by Dr. Bao Dat, a senior lecturer at Monash University (Australia) and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Silence Studies in Education. With a solid academic background and international teaching experience, the speaker provided many fresh and practical perspectives for the students. Attending from UEF were Associate Professor Dr. Duong My Tham, head of the Master's program in English Language, along with a large number of students.

During the seminar, Dr. Bao Dat guided students step-by-step in creating lesson plans using cartoons. Instead of using available teaching materials, students were instructed from the basic sketching of character portraits to expressing actions, emotions, and psychological states through drawing. Based on this, students applied their specialized vocabulary to describe, tell stories, and develop lesson content around characters they created themselves.

This teaching method is not only visual and dynamic but also represents a systematic pedagogical strategy. Designing illustrative images allows instructors to create unique learning materials. Particularly, these images can be flexibly applied across all four skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. This approach enhances memorization capabilities while also stimulating student interest in language education.

Students Create Innovative Lessons Based on Cartoon Characters

The discussion segment was enthusiastic, with many professional and practical questions from students. Based on his extensive teaching and research experience, Dr. Bao Dat suggested suitable approaches for building creative lesson plans while emphasizing that applying new methods requires time, persistence, and continuous practice. Through this, the speaker clarified the core value of connecting images with education, helping learners overcome psychological barriers and use the language more naturally and effectively.

The seminar "Creating cartoons for the classroom" successfully concluded, providing graduate students in the English Language program not only with a new teaching method but also with an active and innovative professional mindset. This further demonstrates UEF's applied training orientation, ensuring academic knowledge remains in line with global educational trends.