Developing Visual Literacy in the language classroom – Kieran Donaghy

on 25.03.2021 at 08:45

28 April 2021
12:00 – 13:00 EET or 17:00 – 18:00 EET

In a world where the vast majority of texts our students are encountering and dealing with are visual texts or multimodal texts that use visuals, the importance of visual literacy increases greatly.

In this webinar, we will explore what visual literacy is, why it is important in language education and explore a number of simple, tried and tested viewing frameworks that help students become more active and effective viewers of photo, paintings, films and videos, using examples from the course Kieran co-authored, Language Hub.

Kieran Donaghy is a freelance award-winning writer, international conference speaker and trainer. He is the author of books for students and teachers of English as a foreign language. His publications include Film in Action (Delta Publishing), Writing Activities for Film (ELT Teacher2Writer) and Video, The Image in ELT (ELT Council) and Language Hub (Macmillan). He trains teachers in Barcelona and online at his specialist teacher development institute, The School for Training.

His website Film English has won a British Council ELTons Award, an English Speaking Union Award and the MEDEA Award. He is the founder of The Image Conference and co-founder of the Visual Arts Circle. You can find out more about Kieran at his author website http://kierandonaghy.com/.