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Using visuals in the classroom

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Interest and motivation

A specific refernce point or stimulus

Pictures contribute to

A sense of the context of the language

Criteria for selecting activities

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Easy to prepare

Is it easy for you to prepare?

Easy to organise

Is it easy to organise?

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Interesting

Is it interesting to the students?

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Will the language and the way you want the students to use it be authentic and intrinsic to Meaningful the activity?

Easy to organise

Will the activity give rise to a sufficient amount of language in order to justify its inclusion in the language lessons?

Five ways of looking at language

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Structures

Vocabulary
Function Situations Skills

Five ways of looking at language

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Hill, D.A. (2003) The Visual Element in EFL Coursebooks. In: Tomlinson, B. (ed). Developing Materials for Language Teaching. Continuum: Continuum pp. 174-182

Highlights The Visual Element in Language Teaching by Pit Corder 1966 as the 1st piece of research into using visuals in the classroom

and discusses teaching language and meaning through the use of

images. Pit Corder made the distinction between talking about and talking with talking about = limited and constrained by the obvious, factual what you see, talking with = students bring their own knowledge/opinions to the picture and hypothesize

Homework
1. Pair work

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Select the best activities based on the criteria presented. Account for your choices.

2. Pair work
Choose 2 activities to present in class. 3. Individual work Look at the use of visuals in the textbook you selected to analyze and write about it.

Bibliography

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