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Essay / Using visual thinking for effective teaching and learning
Visual thinking involves the use of visual aids to deliver educational content more effectively. Using even simple visuals is a great way to illustrate the main topics that will be taught. Simply hearing information is not enough for most learners to retain it, so visual aids help with receiving and retaining information. Visual aids have the ability to stimulate and maintain learners' interest, simplify teaching, accelerate learning and reinforce the material being studied. There are many benefits to using visual aids in language teaching. The first is that visual thinking makes it easier to understand complex information. Using visual supports, students can see the connection between ideas and understand how this information can be organized or grouped together. With visual aids, new concepts are easier to understand. Learners can use diagrams or other visual aids to display large amounts of information in easy-to-understand ways and help reveal relationships and patterns. Sometimes using only words can hide the true meaning or purpose of the message. This leads to misunderstanding. But using a combination of words, pictures, graphics and other visual aids helps convey the original idea. The next benefit is that visual thinking improves learning. Visual aids are used to reinforce learned content. Effects and colors can be customized to help students better understand the subject content. Visual aids bring reality closer to students. They make learning experiences more natural and realistic. Visual aids make the learning process more interesting for students. Visual learning is a good way to increase learners' interest in a given topic. Visual aids break the ordinary cycle in contexts like cla...... middle of paper ......fragment. Learners are expected to guess what the video is about and discuss it in class. Teaching listening is vital for learners. Because listening skills are the most frequently used. Most language learners want to be able to understand what people say to them in English, whether face-to-face, on television or radio, in theater and cinema, or on tape, CD or other recorded media. [31] Listening skills are ways to help learners listen to something more effectively. The example of a listening activity is watching a film in English, without subtitles. Even if learners cannot understand what the character is saying, through the video they can guess. Works Cited30. Harri Daniel, Benefits of Visual Learning, http://benefitof.net/benefits-of-visual-learning/, 2011 accessed: 10/05/1431. Harmer, J., How to Teach English, Pearson Longman, 2007