PROCESSES AND METHODS TO USE PICTURES AS A LANGUAGE VEHICLE

摘要

I disclose processes and methods that by combining pictures in specific ways could boost, enforce, and optimize language learning. Herein I disclose the combination of several pictures all of them related to the same word in order to elicit said word in the observer. Also, by showing a word together with several photos, and by having to choose the photo/s related to the word, the observer can enforce the word learning process. Moreover, I describe the replacement headers of classical multi-choice questions with a photograph. I also show that by intermingling pictures and words, photos can become language units in the same token as conventional words. Finally as a practical embodiment of this method, I provide a game that can be both entertaining and educational.

主权项

1. What is claimed is a series of processes and methods designed to improve language learning abilities, comprising:
A combination of pictures, wherein all said pictures have in common their relationship to a unique word. A combination of a variety of pictures together with a single word wherein at least one of the pictures is related to that word. A type of multi-choice test, wherein the header of said test is partially or totally substituted by a picture. The combination of pictures and words, wherein words and pictures are interchangeable language units and images are called WORD SUBSTITUTING IMAGEs.