Can the use of web-based comic strip creation tool facilitate EFL learners' grammar and sentence writing?

Introduction Both teacherand learner-made computer visuals are quite extensively reported in ComputerAssisted Language Learning literature, for instance, filming interviews (Gromik, 2006; HansonSmith & Marzio, 2006), soap operas (Alm, 2006, 2008) or mini-documentaries (Brooke, 2003), creating storyboard projects (Hazzard, 2006), authoring podcasts and vodcasts (Stanley, 2006), designing digital stories (Alexander & Levine, 2008; Banaszewski, 2002; Skinner & Hagood, 2008; Tendero, 2006). Such student-made digital assets are used to present to their classroom peers for discussion and feedback. Teachers also might take advantage of the digital format of learner-made assets to build their classroom libraries with highly interesting, appropriately leveled texts for students to read during independent reading in the readers’ workshop. Finally, children and adolescents could share their digital materials online and participate in broader digital, global communities that might include children and adolescents with similar backgrounds and experiences.