TY - JOUR ID - 15371 TI - Learning a Thousand Words: EFL Learners’ Development of Vision Competencies JO - Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning JA - ELT LA - en SN - 2251-7995 AU - Parsaiyan, Seyyedeh Fahimeh AU - Jalilian, Mansoureh AU - Karimi Alavijeh, Khadijeh AD - Department of English, Faculty of Literature, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 14 IS - 30 SP - 245 EP - 263 KW - EFL learners KW - general English KW - literacy KW - visual literacy KW - vision competencies DO - 10.22034/elt.2022.53401.2506 N2 - Visual literacy (VL), despite its significance, has not received deserved attention in EFL classes in Iran. Addressing this pedagogic and research lacuna, the researchers integrated VL practices into a General English course attended by female university learners, and examined the vision competencies developed by them. The analysis of the data collected through class observation, learner documents, and semi-structured interviews revealed that the learners developed the vision competencies regarding compositional, affective, and critical dimensions of visuals. It is hoped that the findings of this small-scale study encourage language planners, materials developers, and English teachers to pay heightened attention to the visuals’ potential and open more spaces for VL development in their curricula, materials, and language teaching practices.  UR - https://elt.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_15371.html L1 - https://elt.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_15371_68ce993c2802473b3d03714b0da30752.pdf ER -