A Whole New Mind

Moreover, films are a useful device for teaching and learning English. Since films can be considered to be more interested and effective with all the visuals, audios, and special effects that are used, as "people learn better with lessons that activate their senses rather than simply reading words." (Morgan, n.d.). In addition, films are considered to provide an authentic learning material to foreign students, which are "resources created for native speakers of the target language"(Chou, n.d.). For example, students can see and hear how the words are used and pronounced, and in what situations or which tones in different accents, with the use of facial expressions and body language, among different other things that can help them in comprehending

Today, the use of visual information has increased since the use of computers, mobiles, and internet has widely spread. "Today's environment is highly visual. The literacy of the 21st century will increasingly rely not only on text and words, but also on digital images and sounds." (Bleed, 2005). Just as how the technology changed, students themselves have changed. In his book, A Whole New Mind "Pink claims that the Industrial Age was built on physical labor, and the Information Age is built on people's left-brain capabilities. The upcoming Concept Age will use right-brain capabilities." (Bleed, 2005). The way of thinking now differs from before with the effect of the new technologies, and so the teaching should keep pace with those changes. Unfortunately, "text is still used as the dominant teaching medium. While university education expects students to express themselves adequately in writing, hardly any attention is paid to the development of their visual literacy" (Takaya, 2016). Also as the results of Takaya's study confirmed, "scholars have previously claimed that university students lack visual literacy skills" (Takaya, 2016). In addition, a relatively old study conducted in 1997 assures that visual literacy skills are needed for students from five different colleges (Christopherson, 1997). Twenty years later, we are still arguing for the same point in the Palestinian