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is different with children whose brains do not develop yet. Their ability to identify something is better than to read something. Ryan 1993 found that using pictures
as the visual imagery are really effective. The purpose is to enhance and hone the visual perception of children.
Without the „critical looking‟ and „educated seeing‟ that children develop when visuals are used to support their Art program e.g., in the art history, art
appreciation, and aesthetic components of art programs then childrens creative art production capabilities will be significantly impaired and retarded.
Ryan, 1993
The children‟s ability increase a lot if their understanding is supported by some pictures that they can associate with the meaning given.
b. Children’s Thinking Ability
According to Chudler 2011, “Each hemisphere of the brain is dominant
for other behaviors. For example, it appears that the right brain is dominant for spatial abilities, face recognition, visual imagery and music. The left brain may be
more dominant for calculations, math and logical abilities.” This language learning is studied using a game which contains many pictures and colors. The
language is learnt in left brain, while the media used to learn English take parts or activates the right brain. It means all part of brains work well. Those brains work
in balance; the result is the way of remembering something are easier too because the brain which store those vocabulary is used perfectly.
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19 In addition, the brain that can work in balance can help children in their
future. If they are accustomed to use those left and right brain, they can use this way to learn another subjects.
A person who is „left-brained‟ has specialties in language skills, skilled movement, and analytical time sequence processing, while a person who is
„right-brained‟ has specialties in copying of design, understanding geometric properties, reading faces, music, understanding of metaphors,
expressing and reading emotions. Morris, 2006
By knowing those facts, early children can develop this ability to work in harder or more challenging work. They are more both logical and intuitive. Many
people are accustomed to develop one-side brain only. The writers should also know about how they study to give the best way of learning L2.
c. Children’s Way of Studying
Children and adults definitely have different way of thinking. It depends on what development stage they are. This development stage is grouped according
to the age ranges. Caswell 1957:175 proposed that the children learn because they are interested in what they want to know. As in the previous discussion in
point 2a that children are interested in something they do not know before, they have the willingness to learn anything.
According Bukatko 2008, in age of 6-11, by using the information- processing approach, they show an increase in the deliberate production of
memory strategies. The information-processing approach is divided into some types. Those are rehearsal or repeating items; children repeat learning or spelling
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items on the basis of higher-order relationships, the students are asked to reorder or rearrange what they have been memorized. The last is elaboration. Elaboration
is linking items in an image or sentence. In the design of the vocabulary game, pictures are mostly used to develop children understanding about the vocabulary.
They do trial-and-error activities by playing the game repeatedly also.
3. Media or Teaching Aids
