INFOGRAPHICS: A FUN WAY TO TEACH AND LEARN ENGLISH

 #infographics #ELT #Piktochart

The students can create their own infographics.

Recently, we’ve been assigned to create an

 informational infographic on ethical and

 legal issues related to effective technology

 use. We’ve been asked to choose one issue

 of our interest and I have chosen ‘plagiarism’.

 I’ve chosen this topic because ‘plagiarism’ is

 an important issue regarding both written and 

online work.

I’ve used the website ‘Piktochart’ for creating my infographic. Piktochart is a practical infographic website that presented me many templates. Though, there was also an option which you could create your infographic from scratch, and I went for it as I wanted to create my own design. At first, I felt a bit indecisive about where to start but when I started experimenting on the colours, fonts, and icons everything fit into place. As the words started to spill down on my computer screen, I felt a bit surprised at my ability to blend information and humour.

In my opinion, infographics could be an amazing way to teach and learn English. If we consider the students’ general complaints about the lesson (the lesson being too teacher-centred and boring), infographics with their colourful and eye-catching design and semi formal language could be a fun language learning strategy. Clear, concise, and step-by-step explanations and examples about complex topics could assist the students to grasp the topics in an authentic way. Furthermore, the students could be asked to create their own infographics on a language topic (such as present perfect tense or vocabulary about cooking) to get a grip of the course topics.

You can check out my infographic from the link below:

https://create.piktochart.com/output/63536217-what-is-plagiarism-azra-yakici-101022049-2-d

See you soon and take care!

References

Hurst, D. (2008). Children at School [Photograph]. Wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Children_at_school_%288720604364%29.jpg