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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 2 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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