Imagery - Transcoding a Linguistic Sense to an Iconic Sense

Abstract

The integration of the information and communication technology in the educational process has become a necessity, the last years leading to a real conceptual revolution in education, and it proved its efficiency in foreign language learning, increasing the students’ interest towards the learning activity. The use of images in the audio-visual language learning methods is based on a clear strategy for implementing the relationship between text meaning and images, for the association of the term of linguistic representation with the real object that it designates. The purpose of this article is to determine the role of the imagery method in assessing the competence of oral understanding at the level of the school age students who study French as a foreign language in the Romanian educational system. Within this paper, we will focus mainly on the process rather than the product. The mental image aims those imagistic productions that the cognitive system operates with in the absence of the action that visual stimuli have on the senses organs. The category of mental images also contains images formed from the verbal messages.