THE ROLE OF AUDIO VISUAL AIDS IN EFL CLASSROOM
Abstract
The goal of education previewed as the passing on of knowledge by the teachers to the students. Realizing the important of education, a successful language teaching is linked to the existence of methods and techniques. Current innovations are being brought up in language teaching through the growth of technology. The use of this technology in the classroom has directly leased the teacher to approach old ideas in new ways. Recently, in facilitating the teaching process, different audio-visual aids used by language teacher. The audio-visual aids that are likely to be utilized by the teacher related to audio clips, power point slides, pictures, videos, posters, along with text books, and so forth in language classrooms. The objectives of the study are to analyze the role of audio-visual aids in facilitating language teacher's as well as the learners in EFL classroom. The study also investigates the teachers' standpoints towards using audiovisual aids. The descriptive of analytical method was used in this study. To take the required data, a questionnaire was distributed to EFL teachers, and classroom observation was also conducted. The findings of the study revealed that audio visual aids in EFL classroom brought variation in the class which removed the monotony of the teacher-based class. These also helped the teachers to draw the attention of the students. The teacher could clarify the subjects to the students clearly and easily and it made the class alive and participatory.
Keywords
Audio-visual aids, ELT media, EFL Classroom