“I suppose being a relatively young professor my approach and methods are a bit uncouth,” Stillar wrote. The title of his speech? “Ugly English: Teaching profanity to Japanese EFL students.” Next month, he’s presenting a paper to Japan’s biggest conference for language teachers. Stillar said this is hardly the first time he’s come up with unconventional ways to teach a language. The subreddit’s membership jumped from 300 to nearly 2,000 in just a few hours. Since then, good-intentioned redditors have been showering the comics with upvotes and lauding them with praise. See more ideas about rage comics, derp comics, funny. The section attracted a whole lot of attention earlier today when it was featured in r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu and Reddit’s r/bestof section, where redditors highlight the best content from around the site. Explore Trolling Comicss board 'Trolling Comics', followed by 1,614 people on Pinterest. “The feedback in the form of ‘up votes’ or comments they receive from the online community where they are posted also adds an interactive element to the assignment.” “It allows the students to express themselves creatively in a meaningful and enjoyable way in their second language,” Stillar wrote. So two weeks ago Stillar, who hails from Reno, Nevada, created his own subreddit - r/EFLcomics. Stillar said he’s been an “active lurker” on Reddit for about four years and recently decided to “harness its awesome community to enhance my classes.” Ironically, Svetlana Topol’s speciality was. They quickly spread to Reddit where they spawned r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu - a subreddit, or section of the site, that boasts nearly a quarter million subscribers and hundreds of new comics daily. Rage Comics RageComics rage comic ragecomic 9gag Fu F7u12 Ffuu fffuuu Ffffuuuu Fffffuuuuu Ffffffuuuuuu Press J to jump to the feed. A Russian teacher has been fired after her clandestine capers as a porn star were exposed. Invented on image board 4chan in 2008, the simple, easily replicable comics boast a suite of faces that represent comic emotions. Rage comics have, in fact, become a kind of language in their own right. “Rage comics are special because at their core they consist of well known faces or expressions,” Stillar wrote in an email to the Daily Dot, “which are meant to show universal emotions of varying degrees under a wide variety of circumstances.” Stillar, 32, uses the comics anyone-can-make to teach English as a foreign language. For most college students, playing around with rage comics during class is pretty much the equivalent to flushing a few thousand dollars down the toilet.īut if you’re lucky enough to attend professor Scott Stillar’s classes at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, Web comics are integral to the curriculum.
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