淺談視覺素養教育對高中英語教學的影響

Abstract

Hardship is suffered by enormous numbers of English learners who are unconscious about their involvement into visualizing times. Vast of vocabularies can be turned into familiar pictures and vice versa. Visual literacy education enables English learners to keep up with times and acquire English with less suffering.

This paper dialectically reveals the impact of visual literacy education on high school English teaching: the positive and negative effects. Not only comparison, but also concrete examples and most abstract theories from Rudolf Arnheim’s Visual Thinking will be employed for reasoning. 

The definition and advancement of visual literacy is clarified in the first chapter for the better understanding of visual literacy. Then Chapter Two and Three respectively demonstrate the positive and negative effects of visual literacy on high school English teaching, from the perspective of both English instructors and English learners. These mostly lie in the sphere of psychology that is a significant segment of human beings, such as thinking and emotion. Finally, some proposals are put forward to demand schools and education departments’ action for advancement.

Key words: visual literacy education; English teaching; psychology

CONTENTS

Introduction1

Chapter One General Understanding of Visual Literacy Education3

1.1Definition of Visual Literacy3

1.2 The Upcoming Visual Times4

1.2.1 Application of Visual Materials in History4

1.2.2 Modern Technology—The Motivation5

Chapter Two Positive Effects on High School English Teachers and Learners5

2.1 From the Perspective of Instructors6

2.1.1 Enriched Teaching Environment6

2.1.2 Instructive English Teaching Technic7

2.2 From the Perspective of English Learners7

2.2.1 Creative Thinking7

2.2.2 Admirable Memory ability8

Chapter Three Negative Effects on High School English Teachers and Learners9

3.1 Visual Contamination: Teachers’ Longer Preparation10

3.2 Visual Preference: Students’ Growing Appetite10

Chapter Four Recommendations11

4.1 For Schools11

4.1.1The Mode of English Courses11

4.1.2 More Study Resources12

4.1.3 Cultivation of English Teachers12

4.1.4 Guidance for English Learners13

4.2 For Education Departments13

Conclusion14

References16

Acknowledgements17