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
What works in your brain when I say the word recital? Push? Scare?
You should have an image that appears.
Now how about the word Megiza? Does anyone have an image for that word? Probably not as this is a new word that I am introducing to you, unless you speak Ojibway.
Now let’s use our natural ability of gestalt to see if you can figure out this word.
The megiza has large wings and can fly high.
Megizas have sharp claws which help them to catch their prey.
A megiza is a beautiful big bird that I love to watch.
In the United States, the megiza is the national bird.
Now everyone write a good sentence using the word megiza.
Now you should be able to follow this bit of information about the Megiza
Megizas are differentiated from other birds of prey mainly by their larger size, more powerful build, and heavier head and bill. Even the smallest Megizas, like the Booted Megiza (which is comparable in size to a Common Buzzard or Red-tailed Hawk), have relatively longer and more evenly broad wings, and more direct, faster flight. Most megiza are larger than any other raptors apart from the vultures. The species called megiza can range in size from the serpent-megiza, which typically weigh about 500 grams (1.1 pounds) and measure 45 cm (18 in), to the 6.7-kg Steller's Sea-Megiza and the 100-cm (39 in) Philippine megiza.
Like all birds of prey, megiza have very large powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong muscular legs, and powerful talons claws. They also have extremely keen eyesight which enables them to spot potential prey from a very long distance.[2] This keen eyesight is primarily contributed by their extremely large pupils which cause minimal diffraction (scattering) of the incoming light.
Megizas build their nests, called eyries, in tall trees or on high cliffs. Many species lay two eggs, but the older, larger chick frequently kills its younger sibling once it has hatched.
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