THE IMPACT OF
CARTOONS ON CHILD LITERACY Child literacy is one of the main priorities of both
federal and private organizations around the world. Literacy among children
holistically involved the ability to use language for communication and
interaction with other people . Communication may be in the form of reading and
/or writing. Such capability in every individual is important for daily social
living, since language is the prime tool for an understanding between two minds.
Studies have shown that literacy influence an individual's future , because it
plays a major role in an individual 's employment and opportunity for personal
and professional development through basic and higher education . Literacy also
influences the economic status of a country because citizens better understand
the relationships between industry and commercialization The health condition
of a country has also been observed to be positively correlated with literacy
rates because individuals are generally taught of the principles of personal
hygiene and healthy living through communication in schools through health and
science subjects , and in communities through the use of health-related flyers
leaflets and brochures
Literacy among children is continuously being evaluated among
children and in the recent years , cartoons have been identified as a possible
tool that may be employed to promote child literacy . Cartoons have been
traditionally considered as a form of entertainment and have long been enjoyed
by children. Cartoons are diagrammatic portrayals of stories or issues that the
cartoonist wants to express. Currently, cartoons are considered as a tool for
visual literacy or the learning through vision of actions, objects and symbols
(Fransecky and Debes , 1972 . Cartoons serve as a means of communication that
involve both language and drawings that were meant to convey a certain message
to its readers
The possibility of using cartoons in promoting child literacy is
currently being investigated around the world. Cartoons may possibly serve as
an alternative way to educate children because such type of drawings inherently
includes some sense of humor , which is essential to a child 's learning and
development . It has been determined that teaching students using an extremely
serious attitude generally results in students that are tense and intimidated
(Flannery , 1993 . Cartoons usually present stories and concepts in a happy tone
, unless necessary that certain sections of a cartoon show some melancholy
situations , and this setting lightens up and brightens almost any or concept
that it presented to a student . More importantly, the inherent feature of
humor in cartoons facilitates child literacy by attracting students to have
confidence in tackling difficult subjects such as science and math (Ulloth ,
2002 . It has been determined that humor itself , presented singly or in
combination with drawings such that in found in cartoons abolishes the gap
between the teacher and the student and promotes cooperation between the two
parties (Flowers , 2001
It has been observed that students enjoy learning almost any
subject if presented through the use of cartoons (Rule and Auge , 2005 . The
enjoyment among students is represented by their enthusiasm during class...
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What a fantastic post! This blog needs to be shared with as many people as possible. We are talking about children literacy which is important. You must take help of Andy Yeatman for promoting this thing more because he is really good at it when it comes to kids shows and entertainment. He has helped so much through mickey mouse club house. Kids get to learn a lot from this show.
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