ABSTRACT Caribbean students are repeatedly engaged in rigid forms of writing to meet the requirements of external exams, which often leads to negative attitudes to writing. With current shifts to multimodal and multi-literate texts to engage students’ multiple literacies in learning, students’ creation of graphic novels in Caribbean English classrooms can enable their engagement in meaningful creative writing. To illustrate this, I draw on my recent experiences with four inner-city boys at a Jamaican high school who showed marked improvement in their attitudes and their creative writing skills after creating graphic novels. The preliminary findings from my research suggest a need for more personalised learning strategies and for more opportunities for students to use their home language in Caribbean classrooms.

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我讨厌写作：为在加勒比英语课堂中创作图画小说以培养学生的创造性写作技能提供案例

摘要 加勒比地区的学生为了满足校外考试的要求，反复进行严格的写作形式，这往往导致对写作的消极态度。随着当前转向多模态和多文学文本以吸引学生的多种文学知识参与学习，学生在加勒比英语课堂中创作图画小说可以使他们参与有意义的创意写作。为了说明这一点，我借鉴了我最近在牙买加一所高中与四个市中心男孩的经历，他们在创作图画小说后在态度和创造性写作技巧方面表现出显着改善。我的研究的初步结果表明，需要更个性化的学习策略，并为学生提供更多机会在加勒比海的课堂上使用他们的母语。