The effect of using audio-visual materials on students’ language achievements

Abstract EN

The researcher had noticed that students’ language achieve- ments were low, and he supposed that this can be due to the lack of using audio-visual materials, or to the insufficient usage of them in classrooms.

So, the researcher decidcd to investigate the effect of the use of audio-visual materials in classrooms on students’ lan- guage achievements as the problem of this study.

The objectives of the Sudy were to improve students’ language achievements, to promote teachers’ attitudes towards using audio-visual materials in teaching EFL students and to know students’ perceptions towards the use of audio-visual materials in EFL learning.

The methodology of this Sudy was an experimental analytical approach depending on a pre-test, practical teaching and post-test.

This study investi- gated the effect of the use of audio-visual materials on sccond year students’ language achievements in secondary school level.

The participants, in this study, were 60 male students of the age 15 and 16 years.

These students represented two groups (30 students per group).

These groups were group (A) which was the experimental group, and group (B) which was the control group.

Both of the two groups were taught the same content of subjects in the same number of periods.

The control group students received infrac- tion in the traditional way, while the experimental group received instruction by using audio-visual materials.

The SPSS analysis of the gained scores of marks of the two groups at the pre-test and the post-test indicated the positive effect of the use of audio-visual materials on students' language achievements.

The moS important findings of the Sudy were that the use of technology and multi- media in addition to other different audio-visual materials helps.