Audio- Visual Aids: Building Blocks to a Rich Vocabulary.
- Vocabulary as an element that links all the four skills, LSRW especially listening and speaking.
- Stimulating learners and reinforcing learning through audio visual resource.
- Movies a gateway for vocabulary building.
Language is very important for human life. Language is not natural but it is artificial. Language has a very important social purpose, because it is mainly used for communication. But in communication the Vocabulary plays an important part in second language acquisition and academic achievement.
Audiovisual aids is an important for vocabulary. Audio visual aids are also called "Instructional material". Audio literally means " hearing" and "visual" means that which is found by seeing. So all such aids which endeavor to make the knowledge clear to us through our sense are called " Audio Visual Aides" or instructional material, All these learning material make the learning material make the learning situations as real as possible and give us firsthand knowledge through the organs of hearing and seeing. Therefore any device which can be used to make the learning experience more concrete and effective more realistic and dynamic can be considered audio visual material. Audiovisual aids examples are LCD project, Film projector, TV, Computer, VCD Player, Virtual classroom, Multimedia etc.
Four skills Listing, Speaking, Reading and Writing ( LSRW ) are also plays vital role to enhance vocabulary. They give learners scaffolded support, opportunities to create contexts in which to use the language for exchanges of real information evidence of their own ability and most important is confidence.
" Words are a vehicle to transmit information to the Brain".
many people consider that watching films in English as a good way to broaden vocabulary. Movies use natural language and like our day to day language so they are a great way to improve your English vocabulary. Because film gives a visual context.
How can four skills be used together effectively?
The four skills work in tandem when the activities that require their use are designed to support.
The focal skill approach the goal of the focal skill approach is studying in the SL ( second language) in order to acquire it.
Advantages :-
1. There is substantial research promoting the use of video in the classroom as a dynamic resource for supporting curricula. According to a recent teacher survey 94% of classroom teachers have effectively used video during the course of the last academic year.
2. As educator the aim is to get students energized and engaged in the hands on learning process and video is clearly an instructional medium that is compelling and generates a much greater amount of interest and enjoyment than the more traditional printed material.
3. Visual aids arouse the interest of learner and help the teachers to explain the concepts easily visual aids are those instructional aids which are used in the classroom to encourage students learning process.
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