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A presentation I did at UAB Idiomes Barcelona on 16th April 2010 on how to use digital images in the language classroom.
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ICT Course Using Digital Images 2
Summary of the session
1. Why use images?2. Learning and remembering vocabulary3. Learning and remembering grammar4. Learning and remembering idioms5. Describing images6. Analysing and interpreting images7. Student projects and presentations8. Where we can find high quality digital images
“The soul never thinks without an image.”
Aristotle
“Numerous experiments have proven that subjects learn and remember material that is concrete (imagery-related) better than that which is abstract.”
Goldstein (2009)
“Whereas a text supplies the language, explicitly, an image implies it and thus creates a void to be filled in the classroom.”
Keddie (2008)
“It is because pictures say nothing in words that so much can be said in words about them.”
Maley, Duff & Grellet (1980)
Visual literacy
“The ability to analyse images, to talk about how they work, to evaluate visual texts critically and competently can be termed visual literacy.”
Goldstein (2008)
Learning and remembering vocabulary
Learning and remembering grammar
Learning and remembering idiomatic expressions
Stars and stripes
Student projects and presentations
“Whiskey is liquid gold.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The light music of whiskey falling into a glass – an agreeable interlude.”
James Joyce
“I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”
Humphrey Bogart’s last words
Àngels Consuegra
...Welcome to My Experience
What is OrphanAid Africa?
• Non-profit organization headquartered in California
• Founded in Ghana in 2002
• Situated in West Africa • Over 23 million people • Official language is English
Where does OrphanAid Africa work?
Anyeyah
The Orphanage
What is OrphanAid Africa‘s aim?
• Support orphans and vulnerable children in Ghana
Ensure that children grow up in safe and permanent Ensure that children grow up in safe and permanent family settings with appropriate care and protectionfamily settings with appropriate care and protection
Sources
Goldstein, B, Using Images, Cambridge 2008Keddie, J, Images, Oxford 2008Maley, A.,Duff, A. And Grellet, F. In the Mind’s Eye, Oxford1980 http://www.adbusters.com/http://www.flickr.com/http://www.thevisualdictionary.net/http://www.wordia. com/http://www.wordle.net/http://www.worth1000.com/
