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    Die benutting van die strokiesprent in die onderrig van Afrikaanse stelwerk en letterkunde op sekondere skoolvlak
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1997) Badenhorst, Andre; Smuts, R.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Curriculum Studies.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The main aim of this study is to determine whether the use of comics strips contributes to the improvement of teaching of reading and writing in Afrikaans as a first language by firstly presenting an overview of the relevant literature, and secondly by designing a teaching programme for grades 9 and 10 to show its applicability in the classroom situation. The art of comics is rooted in the earliest forms of visual narrative communication. Later development led to the serious art forms of writing and painting. A new dimension was added to art by later experiments with satirical cartoons. These led to the first modern comic strip, modern because of the interdependence of picture and word. Broadly speaking, two lines of development in comics can be distinguished that which focuses on the pleasure and relaxation of the reader, and that with a satirical point of view. The same trend can be seen in the development of South African comic strips. Several conventions of the comic medium are identified in this study, and its artistic value is demonstrated. The value of the comic strip in the classroom, however, lies in its particular usefulness as a narrative medium. The wide range of possible applications of the comic strip in a teaching programme suggests that it is a valid and useful instrument in the teaching of Afrikaans reading and writing.