The attitudes of English language teachers towards the effect of using audio-visual materials on students’ language achievements

Abstract EN

The researcher noticed that the majority of English language teachers do not use audio-visual materials in classrooms, and this can be due to financial reasons or lack of technical knowledge of using these materials.

Anyhow, the researcher wanted to know the attitudes of those teachers towards the effect of using the audio-visual materials, in classrooms, on students' language achievements.

The objectives of this study, in addition to the investigation of teachers' attitudes towards the effect of the use of audio-visual materials on students' language achievements, were to know if students' perceptions towards the use of audio-visual materials can facilitate their learning and to what extent can these materials motivate students for effective participation in classrooms.

The researcher used, in the methodology of this study, a questionnaire as one of the important tools to collect data about teachers' attitudes towards the use of audio-visual materials and their effect on students' language achievements, in addition to investigate the effect of students' perceptions, about the use of these materials, on facilitating their language learning.

This study investigated the attitudes of English language teachers towards the effect of using audio-visual materials on students' language achievements at the secondary level at Sharq Al-Jazeera Locality.

English language teachers, at the locality, responded to the questionnaire, which was plotted as one of the important tools to collect data concerning the attitudes and views of those teachers towards the effect of using audio-visual materials on students' language achievements in the secondary level.

The SPSS analysis of the questionnaire affirmed the positive effect of the use of audio-visual materials on students' language achievements, in addition to their role in motivating students for effective learning, and facilitating learning process and saving teachers' time for more fruitful practice and students' level assessment.

The study, also, asserted that English language teachers have positive attitudes towards using audio-visual materials in teaching EFL.

The study recommends English language teachers to implement audio-visual materials in classrooms so as to enhance teaching and facilitate learning.

The SPSS analysis showed that the calculated values of Chi-square of hypothesis (1), hypothesis (2) and hypothesis (3) were (562.93), (294.19) and (620.22) respectively, with significant value (0.00) which was less than the level of p-value (5%), for the three hypotheses, and these refer to the existence of differences statistically for the benefit of each hypothesis.