THE ROLE OF STATIC AND ANIMATED PICTURES THAT COMPLEMENT TEXTS IN SUPPORTING LEARNING

Abstract

Pictures are widely used to accompany texts as adjuncts to facilitate learning. This article discusses the role of such a combination in supporting learning and the underlying theory that explains how individuals process visual and verbal information and how they can benefit from such a combination. It is hypothesized that the facilitative effect of picture-text combination is attributed to the supportive role of pictures played in the cognitive processing involved in mental model building of the situation being explained.

Keywords

• static pictures
• animated pictures
• mental model.