The Criteria of Good Picture
observant teacher can find such series in other sources, for example calendars and wrapping paper.
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From the statements above, it can be known that picture series can be found in many sources, such as in textbooks, in comic, in magazine,
calendars, wrapping papers, etc. Cartoon strips can be use as picture sequence if it presents the
series of events, as Andrew Wright explained about picture sequences in his book as follow:
Cartoon strips and instruction strips of pictures are potentially useful. Experience will show the teacher which strips are the
most useful. The strips can be kept as they are and used to contextualize a story or description of a process. First of all the
teacher can ask questions to help the students grasp the meaning of the strip. Intermediate and advanced students can discuss the
technique of the cartoonist in hisher representation of the people and setting the relationship between the drawing and the
words.
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This cartoon strips was the most found in daily lives to represent picture sequences. It can be used to contextualize a story, therefore
learners can know the sequence of events happen in that story to find out the relationship between the picture and the appropriate words to use.
Furthermore, Wright suggests the use of picture series. According to Wright,
“Pictures series are pictures, which show some actions or events in chronological order. They tend to range from four to eight
pictures ”.
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They usually tell some short of stories, but they may also be used to depict a process how to make something. In addition, Wright states
that, “Picture sequence can highlight certain language features and it can illustrate a story or a process
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Betty Morgan Bowen, Look here Visual Aids in Language Teaching, London: Essential Language Teaching Series, 1973, p.50
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Andrew Wright, Pictures for Language Learning Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, p. 199.
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The statement above strengthen the previous explanation that picture sequence usually use to tell some short of story, it illustrates the
process of a story. All of the explanation above implies that a picture sequence is a
kind of pictures that has a series of an object or a situation is explained by some pictures. This picture usually tells about a story, or an event about
something that happened. The sequence must be in chronologically order.