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This chapter is dealing with how teachers use visual literacy especially in their lessons for mother language lessons. We can infer visual’s messages better via visuals smoothly. It is vital because of our lives. Subjects’ of this study were 4th class students of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkish Language Education Department. The investigation was done with 8 students (6 females and 2 males) in the campus in the spring semester of 2017–2018 education year. The data of the study were collected by using qualitative approaches. In addition, document analysis was used in the study. As a result, content analysis was performed on the data of the research. In the study, researcher described visual literacy and then gave detailed explanation about it. Finally, researcher presented student’s activities and their feedbacks about visual literacy. The study results revealed that photographs and pictures can be used by making relation with visuals and texts in class environment for mother language education and training for better learning outcome.
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Çelik, G. (2020). Visual Literacy and Teaching in the Education of Mother Language. In: Sarasola Sánchez-Serrano, J., Maturo, F., Hošková-Mayerová, Š. (eds) Qualitative and Quantitative Models in Socio-Economic Systems and Social Work. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18593-0_20
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