This page presents a collection of the supplementary pedagogical material from the academic volume Manga Vision: Cultural and Communicative Perspectives. These materials are research-based and designed to be used as classroom resources in order to implement the use of manga in the classroom.
Visit the Manga Vision page to read full biographies and abstracts, or download the Open Access edition of the book to read the relevant chapters.
Chapter 11. Manga in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom of Manga Vision, written by Lara Promnitz-Hayashi, discusses and shows examples of how manga can be used not only to study Japanese, but how EFL students used manga as a tool to study English and also to investigate and understand popular culture in both Japan and abroad.
This 3-page worksheet is designed for use in teaching English as a Foreign Language. It can be used in the classroom to aid students in learning through the consideration of manga. The worksheet covers the definition, history, and popularity of manga, including space for student discussions of genres and titles, as well as the lives of manga artists.
Available for download as a portable document format (pdf) file.
EFL Worksheet © 2016 Lara Promnitz-Hayashi.
Chapter 14. The Sound of Silence: Translating Onomatopoeia and Mimesis in Japanese Manga of Manga Vision, written by Cathy Sell and Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou, examines the challenges of manga translation by introducing the aesthetic difficulties created by the script-artwork integration, in tandem with page layout complexities owing to the difference between textual conventions. It concludes by analysisng strategies employed by manga translators to deal with the linguistic disparity of onomatopoeia and mimesis between the source and target languages, and typographic strategies to address aesthetic concerns.
This single-page worksheet is designed for classroom use teaching translation from Japanese to English. It can be used to teach strategies for dealing with onomatopoeia and mimesis in translation, as well as giving students an introduction to the breadth of onomatopoeia and mimesis in Japanese. It implements the practical use of manga in the classroom.
Available for download as a Portable Document Format (pdf) file, with or without furigana.
Onomatopoeia and Mimesis Translation Worksheet © 2016 Cathy Sell and Sarah Pasfield-Neotifou.