Using anime as a supplementary material in an EFL classroom

Abstract

This course is designed to teach English through Anime-based materials supplementary to the main General English course book for 10-11 years old Low Intermediate level students. The concept of the course is driven by increasing popularity of Anime among kids and teenagers in Armenia. This course provides the students with topics and tasks related to Anime and helps them to enrich their target vocabulary, speaking skills as well as critical thinking and soft skills. The course is informed by the principles of the communicative and task-based language teaching approaches and their underpinning learning activities. The duration of the course is two months, three times a week, two-hour lessons each.