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Tag: Visual Literacy

Developing Multiple Literacies in the Young Learner English Classroom

28 January 2025 Ellen Setterfield Very Young Learners, Young Learners One comment

What skills do our young English language learners need in order to communicate effectively and make sense of the world? Traditionally literacy has been thought of as having the ability to read and write, but is that really sufficient in the media and information-rich world we live in? Our young

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Developing Students’ Visual Literacy Skills 

18 June 2024 Jade Blue Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens Leave a comment

“Worldwide visual culture has never been so rich and varied” (Riechers, 2024). Visual Literacy, the ability to interpret and understand the ideas and meanings in what we see, and to communicate our ideas in visual form, is an essential life skill.  To understand more about what visual literacy involves, and

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Engage, Educate, Empower: Maximizing Learning with Infographics

13 November 2023 National Geographic Learning Academic Skills Leave a comment

When was the last time you read a long article online from start to finish, without seeing any images?   Most information today is communicated online via web articles and blogs—like this one—using a combination of text and images or graphics.   Why is this?   One reason is that infographics are liked

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Why Images are Powerful for Learning

7 September 2018 Anna Hasper Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

Welcome to the fourth post in this series. In this post, we will be looking at why images are so powerful in the language learning process and at bringing images into the classroom to develop our students’ creative thinking. The Social-Age You may have noticed, with the popularity of Instagram,

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National Geographic Learning Author John Hughes: Interview on Visual Literacy

Interview: John Hughes on Visual Literacy in the Language Classroom

20 January 2017 John Hughes Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 3 comments

Listen to author John Hughes discuss how an understanding of visual literacy can help teachers make effective use of images in the English classroom and students decipher visuals in English. Have you read John’s article on the subject?

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Wooden house in forest during Aurora Borealis

Visual Literacy in the English Language Classroom

20 January 2017 John Hughes Teaching Adults 9 comments

Here are eight words or terms that either didn’t exist or were relatively unheard of before the beginning of this century. Do you know, or can you guess, their meaning? What do you think the connection is between them? infographic kinetic typography screenager binge-watch emoji meme vine augmented reality If

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