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Title                            : How Many Words Is a Picture Worth? Integrating Visual Literacy in Language Learning with Photographs

Author                        : Lottie Baker

Year                            : 2015

Publisher                    : English Teaching Forum

Source                        : www.eric.com

The development of technology has brought the new style of learning language. In 1969, Debes firstly stated the nature of visual lietracy as a set of competencies that “a human being can develop by seeing and at the same time having and integrating other sensory experiences”. However, learning with visual literacy produces lots of advantages such as the tools for meaningful oral interaction, critical thinking skills, learning scaffolders, and content language linkers.

Furthermore, Lottie Baker, the author of this journal article, introduces instructional strategies using visual images. The first strategy is Photo Analysis which can be started by teacher providing some pictures the some group of students in class. Then the teacher urges the students to respond the content of the pictures given. After that, the pictures are oberved closesly e.g. by covering some parts of picture so that the visible part can be looked into. The next duty is to list the people, places, and actions found in the picture then they share it with their friends in the same group. After obtaining some lists and ideas, they try to find the connection (by their own) between lists and their first impression of the picture. With their team members, they discuss about the agreed points about the pictures. The last thing is to challenge other groups by posing questions that cannot be easliy detected on the picture.