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Benedek, Andras, Ed.; Nyiri, Kristof, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2011
Learning and teaching are faced with radically new challenges in today's rapidly changing world and its deeply transformed communicational environment. We are living in an era of images. Contemporary visual technology--film, video, interactive digital media--is promoting but also demanding a new approach to education: the age of visual learning…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Deafness
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Gresham, Peta – English in Australia, 2012
This paper reflects one cycle of an action research project that investigated how integrating activity, competition, and visual learning strategies through IWB/ Smart Response technology could engage a lower level Year 12 Advanced English class in NSW--a group of boys who felt disconnected from the course of study. After my initial reconnaissance…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Action Research, Achievement, Visual Learning
Andrews, Richard – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
Imaginative and attractive, cutting edge in its conception, this text explicates a model for the integration of language arts and literacy education based on the notion of framing. The act of framing--not frames in themselves--provides a creative and critical approach to English as a subject. "Re-framing Literacy" breaks new ground in the language…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Literacy, Language Arts, English Instruction
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Williams, Linda Stallworth – Business Communication Quarterly, 2008
This article provides details about a comprehensive assignment for teaching sales letters in a business communication course. During the past 5 years, this assignment has evolved, moving beyond one that focused almost exclusively on strategies for making the letter persuasive, and therefore effective, to an expanded form that devotes time and…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Persuasive Discourse, Ethics, Rhetoric
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van der Waarde, Karel – Visible Language, 2010
An area of visual communication that might be classified as a "design failure" is the visual presentation of information about "prescription-only medicines" for patients. This information is provided on packaging, leaflets, brochures, labels and websites. The practical issue is that there are problems in convincing patients to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graphic Arts, Design, Patients