Visual linguistics in learning languages. Can Donald Duck be an old man?

The presentation focuses on the image-text relation in language education. Through comics, games, cartoons and visual narratives, visual linguistics links the gap between images and words, making learning a more engaging and multisensory experience. As the interplay of visual and verbal elements, songs foster intercultural competence and support the development of receptive skills, pronunciation and vocabulary acquisition. A few examples are Donald Duck Had a Farm, Hakuna Matata, Let It Go for children, and My Heart Will Go On, Take My Breath Away, and I Will Always Love You for adults. Visual linguistics with iconic figures like Donald Duck initiates educational experiments in a language classroom.