Visualizing and Verbalizing

1. Visualizing and Verbalizing • The Imagery-Language Connection for Cognition • Dual Coding Theory (Verbal Language plus Non-Verbal Images) Mental imagery is sensory information that is available to us for language comprehension and thinking…imagery is the sensory mechanism that enables the creation of an imaged gestalt and stops language from going in one ear and out the other.” -Nancy Bell

2. Visualizing and Verbalizing A university graduate described listening to a lecture as words slipping in and out of his mind: “It is like the language was written on a blackboard and someone was going behind and erasing it, and I only got a few parts of what was said.”

3. Visualizing and Writing Imagery Language Oral Comprehension + = Imagery Language Written Translation + =

4. Concept Imagery Symptoms of Weak Concept Imagery • Difficulty with critical, logical, abstract thinking and problem solving • Difficulty with written and oral language comprehension • Difficulty following directions • Difficulty in expressing language orally • Difficulty expressing language in writing • Difficulty grasping humor

5. Concept Imagery Symptoms of Weak Concept Imagery • Difficulty interpreting social situations • Difficulty with cause and effect • Difficulty with attention and focus • Difficulty responding to a communicating world • Difficulty with mental mapping

6. Visualizing and Verbalizing recital scare liberty mbuni In Africa, the mbuni lives in the grasslands and primarily eats plant matter and invetebrates. The mbuni is covered with feathers to keep it warm, he doesn’t have the type of feathers needed to fly. A common myth about the mbuni is that they hide their heads in the sand when they are scared. This is not true.

8. Mental Representation to Words

9. Practice the cycle • Volunteer • Show an image • Describe the image to me • I will verbalize what I imagine based on your description of the image

11. words to describe • How do we describe? Did the description match what I imagained? • Essentially when we are translating, we are needing words to describe the mental images in our mind. • What words can be provide students to help them describe their mental images?

12. Visualizing and Verbalizing Picture to Picture Picture to Picture Structure Words sound mood background perspective when shape where movement what size color number

13. Practice the cycle • Partner – one describes and the other receives • Show an image • Describe the image to your partner • Partner verbalized what was seen in the picture.

15. Holding the image in your mind Flash the image Describe the image to the partner, using your descriptor words Partner describes what they imagined Then together look at the image Was it what you imagined?

16. Translation halcyon

17. Writing what you saw • Flash the image • Write a description of the the image and share with your partner, using your descriptor words • Partner describes what they imagined from your writing • Then together look at the image • Was it what you imagined?

18. Translation cinematographer