Image Assisted L2 Acquisition With Internet

The authors have developed the Internet browser application Gymn@zilla for L2-learning. In this paper they present a dynamical image annotation: Gymn@zilla automatically provides explanatory images drawn from Internet for words in L2. The Internet-images are often photos of daily events. The authors discuss the psycholinguistic implications of images in L2 learning in general and specifically the use of highly contextualized images in a CALL application.