From Family Homes to Dangerous Hikes
Developing Intercultural Awareness through the Graphic Novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17168486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Marie Gielink (Universidad de Navarra, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4506 • E-ISSN: 1710-1131 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cmlr-2024-0071 |
| OpenAlex | W7136632810 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
With the objective of facilitating beginning-level second language (L2) students’ development of intercultural awareness through the reading of a graphic novel from a pedagogy of multiliteracies perspective, the present study applies participatory action-research methodology to a university-level A2 Spanish class ( Council of Europe, 2001 ) by designing and implementing a pedagogical intervention based on the graphic novel La casa by Paco Roca (2015 ). By structuring class activities according to the knowledge processes of the pedagogy for multiliteracies, a graphic novel can be made accessible to beginning L2 learners. It then can be used as a tool for the development of intercultural awareness, broadening conceptualizations of culture beyond simply nations to consider one’s relationship with their environment as they move through different social contexts. This paper shares select pedagogical activities implemented and analyzes the results of a case study to conclude that structuring the reading through the pedagogy of multiliteracies can serve to develop intercultural awareness. Results show that the student participant explores their relationship with their surroundings in multiple social contexts and reflects on the perspective of another person in a moment of conflict, mirroring a scene in the text
Class (philosophy) · Intercultural communication · Intervention (counseling) · Mirroring · Perspective (graphical) · Perspective-taking · Reading (process) · Structuring · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Literacy, Media, and Education · Second Language Learning and Teaching
Foreign Languages and Higher Education
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence
Critical Literacies and Graphic Novels for English‐Language Learners
Intercultural awareness
The symbolic dimensions of the intercultural
Spanish Comics as Genre
The World Is Not Flat, So Why Are Our Textbooks
Hacia una pedagogía para la multialfabetización
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |