The Role of Audio Visual Aids in
Language teaching consists not merely words or sentences. The force and significance of words are derived from the context or situation. The meaning of a word is fixed by its immediate context, but the full effect of a word is derived from something wider, something that we may call the “generalized context”. Many English words have a number of meanings. What actually baffles a language trainer is not the teaching of vocabulary or syntax, but the creation of steadily expanding awareness of the generalized context, in relation to words and expressions. Each linguistic unit is related to an idea, an object or a situation. A word does not have an identity removed from the context. Language is a form of a social behavior, and so language is as complex as most other forms of behavior. Therefore, the task of a language trainers is to make the learners aware of the generalized context, while teaching words and structures. If the teacher is able to create the generalized context visually in the classroom, his attempt to provide learning experience will be successful to a certain extent. In the past, the visual presentation was made by means of the traditional visual aids like wall charts, maps, posters, photographs, film strips, specimens like coins, stamps, tickets, newspapers etc.
english language training
JANUARY 2018
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