Abstract
The major purpose of this study was to inquire into the strategic use of locally spoken languages to deliver more varied visual images in art teaching and learning processes. The research was implemented using elementary school children in the Harima language region (Hyogo prefecture) in order to verify the hypothesis that provincial language use in the rendition of visual forms may have more motivational advantages than the common language use in art teaching. Local terms or words reflect the individual concepts that each word conveys and evoke varied forms of expressions. The analysis showed that the lingual stimuli of regional terms provided more diversity and exaggeration of the visual transformation of their concepts, especially of size and measurements.
