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