Importance of Audio-Visual Aids in Second Language and Literature Teaching

Importance of Audio-Visual Aids in Second Language and Literature Teaching

“Importance of Audio-Visual Aids in Second Language and Literature Teaching”

Introduction

Teaching aids that can be simply called as instrument or tools that can be help to actualize to the methodology while a teaching to primary schools or a highs school class’s methodology is a broad area to largely concerned with ideas, planning and design. Aids on the other hand are concrete ways of putting though ideas in practice.

The importance of teaching aids in primary schools or high schools is highly significance. The age of primary school children and high school children they can acquire things as it is. The grasping power of those students area extra than high level students.

Used the teaching aids for students of primary school children, they can acquire everything immediately. It teacher used the teachings aids students acquired situation consciously.

Teachings aids have to types, one is audio visual aids, in audio aids teacher can private the gramophone, the tape recorder, the radio in audio visual aids teacher can used the television, computer clip acts or projector machine while using this teaching aids teacher also used the regularly using teaching aids like black boards chock, duster pictures, flash cards flannel cards table charts.

Regularly Used Teaching Aids

Black boards:  

The most essential in the teaching primary schools or highs schools it is a cheapest and easily available aids black boards can used to introduce the text, author and background information about the text. E.g. it the teacher teaching to the 9^th students about science, teachers can draw the picture of experiment how the chemical reaction could change it can be draw on the black boards.

If there is the process of glucose teacher can draw or write the process of the chemical reaction in these experiments in this process students could easily understand in the process of glucose. Black boards is important for to teaching a high level classes of the chemical where drama, poetry as other literary things taught black boards is important to the teaching drama ,while teachings the drama teachers can write the name of major minor character name on the black boards students can easily understood two types of characters.     

Teacher can write the authors name on the Black board. Information about the author, background information, and teacher can draw the picture of drama’s setting. Blackboard is not important for teaching the drama it is also helpful to teaching other literary genre like poetry, fiction etc. Used of Blackboard for teaching all this thing students can visualize all through the blackboard.

Display Board:

Display board is a kind of board which is fixed, can be used for displaying material such board can be effectively used in teaching of literature. Teaching material which the teacher wants his students read and remember can be displayed on this board, the writing on Blackboard is for short time whereas material displayed on the board can be therefore a longer time. The material can be put up on the display board.

E.g. On display board, we can display or periods, Great writer of that period and their famous work in that period it could be beneficiary to the students of literature. On the display we can put up the some information about the particular writer’s works, criticism on their work, we can also put up the some visual images on the display board. E.g. Teaching the Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’ poem, which can dispatch or display a visual image of Daffodils flower or like that.

While teaching the novel or fiction we can put up the summary of that novel. Such display boards can be used as medium of communication where the students participate by writing response to material displayed on the board.

Flannel board or Rolling board:

A type of board, which are easy to carry for a teacher at different places. Such boards can be used to save the time of teacher in a class. A teacher can be prepared this material at home bring it to the class by using board in teaching of poetry.

E.g. If the teacher teaching the poetry, he can prepared some information about the poetry such as like, Rhyme schemes of poetry, meter and other things can be write on this board.

Audio Aids

The Gramophone

The Gramophone is basic audio aids in teaching process. In country like, India the gramophone is blessing, it is very too easy to operate and suitable to maintain.

Through the gramophone we provide the students the sound clip of the drama or poetry.

E.g. Teaching like Shakespeare’s tragedy we can listen the certain important dialogue or character’s soliloquies through the gramophone. It is that kind of machine use stopped it any moment where we want to stop. We can listen this dialogue again through the gramophone. 

Tape Recorder

Tape Recorder is as like as the gramophone. Through the tape recorder we can do record the voice of students or teacher.

E.g. if the teacher read the gay poem it recorded then listen students and then students sing it as teacher sung. Through the tape recorder we can listen the characters dialogue from the drama. Tape recorder is very useful to the primary school children. First they listen the poem and then sing it.

Radio

It is a very important type of audio aids these days. It can be used in a number of ways for teaching English. The young learner can listen to English News and other programs, which are broadcast on the radio. The pronunciation of the students may not be able to gain anything on the first or the second day but surely they will gain a lot in due course of time. Listening ability and speaking ability of English can be improved with the help of radio. A radio lesson helps in a number of ways such as ……

A) Radio brings subject, experts and other great men in the classroom. Lectures, talks and address of important personalities from any corner of the world can heard on the A.I.R.

B) The Radio lesson helps the students in the improvement of pronunciation, speech and language.

C) It develops critical thinking of the students.

E.g. the president of India delivering speech on the eve on the Independence Day students can listen, this broad casting on the A.I.R. through this student can improve their listening speaking skill.

Audio–Visual Aids

Television

Television with its simultaneous appeal to the sense of sight and the sense of hearing is the most effective and the most sophisticated audio – visual aids available today. It is used for educational purposes in almost all countries of the world today. T.V. combines a number of aids for teaching English – tapes, models, films, charts, maps, diagrams and several others. All these go to make the T.V. lesson lively and useful. Today in our cities most learning occurs outside the classroom. The sheer quantity of information conveyed by schools. The Nation that education is a process that goes on within the four walls of the Classroom is also shattered.

E.g. through the audio-visual aids students improve their listening and speaking skill more intentionally. On the television students could watch the speaking with action. Students could understand the intonation pattern of speaker.

Computers

One of the most important contributions of modern technology in the field of individualized instruction is the introduction of computers in the teaching, learning process. As teachers, we should know the role of computers in the teaching – learning process. A computer can record, analyze and react to students’ responses.

It can store and manipulate information on language learning on an extensive scale, it can control and manage a wide variety of learning materials; and it can simultaneously cope with learning requirements of many individuals. It can make a number of planning decision also.

E.g. student can learn the language through the computers in today’s infield of computer much software are developing for improving language.

Language Laboratories

A language laboratory is a room in which the students are isolated from each other by soundproof walls. Each room has the necessary equipment for practice by the students. The advantages of the set up are that each student can practice speaking without disturbing others and without being disturbed by others and that a whole class of students can simultaneously practice the oral language skills.

A language laboratory is a modern teaching aid. It is more expensive than any other modern teaching aids because of that it has to be maintained at a high cost.

E.g. language laboratories are developed in speaking learning classes through the language skill, improve intonation, stress pattern because through a computer we could do it and it is beneficial to us for learning speaking language.

Conclusion:

In this way we can say that, in today’s modern or technological world, using this all technological thing we improve our language skills. By using these all modern techniques the teacher can make his/her lesson interesting of effective all these teaching aids appeals the students mind and through these modern technology student can gain the proper knowledge in very short period so at the we can say that the modern technology saves the time of teacher and students too.