Pictorial Vocabulary Teaching
Underpinned by Nassaji’s (2003) idea of the fallibility of inferring the meanings
of unknown words from pictures, and by Plass et al.’s (1998) suggestion
of using both pictorial and written annotations, target vocabulary items can
be provided with their equivalent pictures and written annotations, as
shown in Figure 1.
Jiang (2004) asserted that adult L2 learners could draw on the mature
conceptual and lexical systems of their native languages (L1s), in part because
target vocabulary items usually have corresponding words in L1s.