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Techniques
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What is Picture Prompt technique?

Picture Prompt is also called as Visualization. It is about
thinking of challenges visually so as to better comprehend
the issue. It is a process of incubation and illumination
where the participant takes a break from the problem at
hand and concentrates on something wholly different while
his mind subconsciously continues to work on the idea. This
grows into a phase of illumination where the participant
suddenly gets a diversity of solutions and he rapidly writes
them down, thereby creating fresh lines of thought.

What is Picture Prompt technique?

Picture prompts help a lot to enabling students brain to
establish connections. These visualization can help to
express emotions, feelings and intuitions. This makes
them particularly useful for brainstorming solutions to
innovative challenges involving people, and issues with a
deep psychological or emotional root cause.

Why the Picture Prompt technique can be

implemented?
Picture prompt technique can be implemented to the class of young
learners. Because..

Picture prompt is very suitable for young learners.

This technique can make students to be able to express themselves

creatively and cogently.

Picture Prompt technique can improve students writing skills

What does the teacher need to prepare

before using Picture Prompt?
The teacher need to provide some images for the student to interpret. The
images could be :
A political cartoon that asks students to think about the techniques the
creators of television commercials use to persuade viewers to buy products.
A photo of a giant whale parked on a city streetwith a prompt suggesting
that students act as news reporters on the scene.
A reproduction of the Mona Lisa that gets kids thinking about whom they
might honor with such a portrait today.
These images require interpretation and imagination, they encourage writing
at its besta transaction in which the student makes his or her own
connections and constructs own meaning.

How to use the Picture Prompt

The

facilitator hands out a series of pre-selected images, one

to each participant, and asks them to write down ideas that
are inspired by what they are seeing in it. Mattimore says
these images should be visually interesting, depict a variety
of subject matter and should show people in many different
types of interactions and relationships with other people.

Next,

participants pair off and spend additional time

discussing the ideas they have generated and brainstorming
additional potential solutions to the problem at hand. Finally,
the teams of two present their ideas to the group.

How to use the Picture Prompt

For

best results, Mattimore suggests customizing the visuals to

the nature of the challenge youre trying to solve. For example,
a personnel or corporate culture problem could be tackled using
images like the ones we just talked about depicting many
different kinds of people and relationships. For a manufacturing
challenge, the images could be of an industrial nature. If youre
trying to generate new product ideas, select images that are
broadly evocative of your product category. Be sure to include
some random or irrelevant images in your selections as well,
because sometimes those types of stimuli can lead to the most
creative solutions.

The Advantages Using Picture Prompt (1)

Latuheru (1988), pictures have several functions in the teaching and
learning process. First, picture can translate abstract ideas into more
realistic forms. Second, pictures are easily obtained, e.g. from schoolbooks,
newspapers and magazines. Third, pictures are usable in different kinds of
academic levels. Fourth, picture can save the teacher's time and energy.
Raimes (1983), pictures in sequence provide for a variety of guided and free
writing exercises. A picture sequence, such as a comic strip, provides the
subject matter for writing narrative and for speculating about the story
beyond the pictures in the strip. A set of parallel pictures provide materials
that offer guidance on vocabulary, sentence structure, and organization,
and then let the students to write about new subject matter.

The Advantages Using Picture Prompt (2)

Klasek

(1972) states that there are several advantages of

pictures. First, the picture is inexpensive, familiar medium of
communication. Moreover, picture can be arranged in sequence
and can be adapted to many subjects. In addition, picture has a
multiplicity of uses - by individual student, on bulletin boards
and on flame board. Furthermore, picture can assist in the
prevention of, and correction of, misconceptions. Besides,
picture can translate word symbols, record events, explain
process, extend experiences, draw comparison, show contrast,
show continuity, focus attentions, and develop critical judgment.

The Advantages Using Picture Prompt (3)

Dale (1969) adds that pictures have advantages of their

own. They can bring the students closed to the very
point of visual context with reality itself. They can also
compress or otherwise manipulate reality for teaching
purposes or change the size of an object too small or too
large to be visually understood in its actual dimensions.
They enable us to travel to an inaccessible place, to
study in detail, and to accomplish a great many other
learning that would be impossible otherwise.

The Advantages Using Picture Prompt (3)

Sulaeman

(1988) states that pictures are essential visual media

since they can show concrete visual description of the ideas they
bring. They can make readers understand the ideas or information
they bring clearly, even more clearly than written or oral words.
Brown, et. al. (1983) state that pictures may improve the students'
visual literacy. For example, pictures may help them to
comprehend various abstractions. There are some valuable uses
for pictures such as stimulating students' interest and helping
readers to understand and remember the content of
accompanying verbal materials.

The Disadvantages Using Picture Prompt

Fisher et al. (2007) proposed that the picture prompt
facilitated transfer of stimulus control because it enhanced the
participants' discrimination of the relevant features of the
comparison stimuli. This is a plausible suggestion, given that a
learner can respond correctly to a pointing or position prompt
without actually attending to the comparison stimulus itself.
The weakness of using pictures in teaching language has their
own limitation. That is, in teaching vocabulary, pictures are not
suitable or sufficient for demonstrating the meaning of all
world ( Thornburry, 2004: 81 ) .

The Disadvantages Using Picture Prompt

After

the experimenter models pointing to the far left

stimulus, the learner may imitate the response of pointing to
the stimulus in that position without actually observing the
characteristics of the stimulus itself. By contrast, a correct
response to a picture prompt (e.g., a picture of a cat)
requires attending to the characteristics of the positive
comparison stimulus (e.g., an identical picture of a cat) and
discriminating it from the negative comparison stimuli (e.g.,
pictures of a dog and a horse).

The Solutions:
students

have problems coming up with ideas about

the picture.

You

can suggest things such as what people are

wearing, what they are holding, where they are looking
and what things are made of.

 Sometimes

this teaching technique may result from

the fact that the student are not confident enough to
talk.

By

using pictures of celebrities, electronic gadgets, or

things that they already know allows them to talk
proudly and confidently to their peers and teacher, and
even more so if the other class members cannot
identify the pictures.

 The

weakness of using pictures in teaching language

has their own limitation. That is, in teaching
vocabulary, pictures are not suitable or sufficient for
demonstrating the meaning of all world ( Thornburry,
2004: 81 ) .

If

that the case than make a wild imagination about

the picture.

 Picture

not depict motion as film does. Picture can

seem uninteresting to pupils if the picture is not
unique.

Bring

a picture that still hot nowadays or something

than happen recently.

 The

other weakness of using picture is depicting a

spesific purpose that may be difficult to locate.

Try

to explain about the picture fluently and clear

enough for the student.

Picture Prompt Implementation

Picture 1

Picture Prompt Implementation

The teacher ask the student to imagine the bird and
lizard in the picture are a prince and princess under a
spell. The student have to write a fairy tale about them.
The teacher should be able to keep the students on the
course by help them giving some question or clues based
on the picture to help the students.

Picture Prompt Implementation

The questions can be like:
1. How did they fall under the spell?
2. Can they broke the spell and be human again?
3. How will the spell get broken?
4. And what adventures did the prince and princess
have?

Picture Prompt Implementation

Picture 2

Picture Prompt Implementation

For this picture, the teacher can give ask the student
Whats a whale doing in the middle of town?
Student have to pretend that they are a news reporter on
the scene, and they have to write an article to tell what is
happening.
They can choose one of the following news headlines to
help you get started. Use your imagination!

Picture Prompt Implementation

They can choose one of the following news headlines as
an example to help the student get started.
Whale Invades Main Street, Takes Over City Hall
Whale Gets Lost in City!
A New School That Is Shaped Like a Whale

Picture Prompt Implementation

Picture 3

Picture Prompt Implementation

Daniel Nevins, a modern-day American artist, created this
work of art in 1993. It is called The Dream Tree. Do you
have a special place where you go to daydream? What
makes it special? Do you think daydreaming is important
or a waste of time? Explain.

 THE

FOX AND THE WOLF

THE WOLF RELAX AND EATING IN THE CAVE

Picture Prompt Implementation

Picture 3

Picture Prompt Implementation

In this picture, the teacher can give an instruction to the
student like this:

This is a northern cricket frog. It lives in wet, swampy

areas called wetlands. Many of these frogs have lost
their homes because people have dried up wetlands in
order to build homes, farms, and businesses. Write a
paragraph about this situation from the frogs point of
view. If youd like, write your paragraph in the form of a
letter to the editor of a newspaper.

Picture Prompt Implementation

By making a story based on this picture, the student can
think imaginatively in different point of view. From this
picture the student could know what could happen if we
damage the environment. So, the student not only able
to write a narrative story. The student can conclude what
should they do to reduce the damage to the
environment.