دانشجویان و اساتید دانشگاه فرهنگیان

It seems important that teacher should arrange different teaching materials in order to make students remember their language they learned in foreign language teaching.

Therefore, a good foreign language teacher has to prepare the visual and audio materials she/he will use while she/he is preparing his/her lesson plan. Also she/he has to know how and when she/he will use those materials, because the more she/he uses visual and audio materials during the course, the better students concentrate on the lesson.

When we speak of/on evaluating or adapting teaching materials, we may be thinking of publishing a textbook, an exercise found in the book, or a classroom activity recommended by it.

The most important consideration is that the materials should meet our students’ needs as Cunningsworth puts it:

“Students particularly more sophisticated adults and teenagers need to feel that the materials from which they are learning have to be connected with the real world and at the same time they must be related positively to the aspects of their inner make up such as age, level of education, social attitudes, the intellectual ability and level of emotional maturity.” (Cunningsworth, A., 1984)

Julia Dobson lists visual and audio aids as the followings:

Visual Aids: Blackboard, Bulletin Boards, Flannel Boards, Magne Boards, Realia, Pictures, Charts, Flash Charts, Maps, Calendars, Cartoon, Clocks, Sliders, Filmstrips.

Audio Aids: Radio, Phonograph, Records, Tapes. (Dibson Julia, M., 1988)

The Purposes of Using Visual and Audio Materials

Materials Provide economy in time and speech

Materials simplify the course

Make the course vivid and clear

Materials increase students’ interest and motivation

Materials help to explain complex explanation easily

Materials create desire of learning

Materials make abstract concepts concrete

Materials enrich the course

Materials provide the chance for practising on subjects.