The use of audio-recordings to facilitate English language learning : case of blind students at Tlemcen university

Abstract EN

Teaching is with no doubt a fascinating and challenging profession.

teachers sometimes face some unusual situations.

one of these might be teaching visually impaired students.

this category of students is not able to read from a book or even from the board, take notes, or answer the exam questions.

this research, then, addresses this topic through a case study journey.

the researcher opted for a questionnaire to be used as a research instrument with 10 teachers at the department of English at Tlemcen university and the use of an interview with the English blind students.

the results obtained showed that teachers encountered various challenges to teach blind students including both teaching and evaluation processes.

nevertheless, they ignore using audio-recordings to teach this category of students, for it is not always easy to have the necessary equipment’s and because they are more familiar with the traditional ways of teaching.