“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.” 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. 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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