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Is it necessary to use visual aids when teaching English in the class?

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Question added by Hussam Khomayes , English teacher , different schools
Date Posted: 2014/02/07
amina hosni
by amina hosni , English teacher , Primary school in Jelma

Visual aids are one way to enhance your class's level and should be not taught unless it fulfills a need or your aims. Therefore, visual aids should be used as a means to an end and not an end in themselves. Therefore, the teacher should know how to use visual aids and tips and all other techniques of teaching . As a teacher you should ask your self why you are choosing certain aids and adapt them to your class and their level not just use them because you think they have intriguing value of their own .

Nicholas Poshayi
by Nicholas Poshayi , Teacher/Librarian/Academic Teacher , Brooke Bond School

It is ideal because the purpose of visual aids is to enhance learning.It however at which level we are talking of here,the lower classes it is quite ideal and apppealing whereas it might not have the same effect in upper classes.I would feel it is user friendly to calls to call them MEDIA rather than teaching AIDS which evokes some mixed feelings.........joke. 

Ahmed Gendy
by Ahmed Gendy , English Senior Inspector , Ministry of Education (MoE)

I think that visual aids must be used as there are some students who are visually  

intelligent .Also , the more the senses are used , the better the learning.

Deleted user
by Deleted user

English is probably one of the subjects where the use of visual aids is not absolutely necessary. Having said that, visual aids used correctly can add to a lesson and break up the monotony of the spoken word.

Deleted user
by Deleted user

Oh yes, definitely so. Visuals help undertsnad many ideas

Haitham Mostafa Mohammed Abd Allateef
by Haitham Mostafa Mohammed Abd Allateef , American Education , Smart City International Schools

Sure

Ahmed Abu Zaid
by Ahmed Abu Zaid , معلم اول , وزارة التربية ولتعليم القطاع الحكومي

visual aids are important  as they help they make students pay attention and facinate them or attract them as they depend on the sight  an d their attractive colour  or drawings make thm participate or share

TAHANI Alansary
by TAHANI Alansary , مساعدة سكرتارية تنفيذية , شركة الجزيرة العربية للسفر والسياحة

YES  of course ITS NECESSARY TO USE SOME OF THEM

Naveed  sajid
by Naveed sajid , Assistant Professor , Cholistan University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Bahawalpur

no it is not nessecory to use visual aids for english language teaching.

anayat bukhari
by anayat bukhari , Researcher, English Content Writer, Publisher , Noor Foundation

Visual support is a part of teaching and teaching English is no exception. Even if it is a class of Spoken English you need visual support to explain certain words, terms etc. Some words are there which are not clear to a new listner until you write them on a board with right spellings.

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