ABSTRACT
The title of this project is the Application of Audio – Visual Aids in Teaching in Schools in Igbo – Eze North Local Government Area. The purpose of this study is to apply for audio – visual aids in schools in Igbo – Eze North local government area in Enugu State, this research work is a descriptive survey research and the researchers selected two hundred (200) subjects from the population of two thousand (2000) people through simple random sampling.
After the research, the researchers found that audio – visual aids have a lot of advantages on the teaching of English language in schools in Igbo– Eze North local government area. These advantages are: Audio visual aids like television and radio makes the lessons to be simple, clear and more understandable. Audio visual enables the students to perform well in examination. Audio – visual aids reduce the complex nature of teaching English language. It helps the students to recall lessons in English language. Audio – visual enables the students to gain proficiency in English language. The following are the recommendations from the researchers The use of radio as a teaching aids in the teaching of mathematics in secondary school system. The use of television as a teaching aids in the teaching of science subjects in the secondary school system.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Socialization is the process of imparting knowledge mostly from the old to the young. It is the transference of values to the young so as to perpetuate the society in question in Ojobo Charles (1992) Language is a significant aspect of the culture of the people and all over the countries, mankind has transmitted language from one generation to another, through the process of socialization. A child through association with the adults in the society learns language. The adults on their part, have relied on manipulation of symbols as a form of teaching the young language. In that case, many have adopted varieties of aids to assist them to imparting knowledge from the adult to the offspring. The mass media like radio and television have been utilized in the teaching and learning of English language. According to Schramm (1962), radio is an audio medium.
As a mass medium, it has the capacities to cut through the Barriers of illiteracy and poor infrastructures in English language. Sometimes, the teaching is done in local or enhancing learning. In addition, radio has other peculiarities, which makes it the true mass medium in terms of teaching a mass audience in the developing world. Radio is relatively cheap and can be operated without electricity. It is television, which can also transcend such barriers as illiteracy and infrastructural facilities. Widely owned all over the third world even in remote areas. Therefore, radio has been in use as a teaching aid in the learning of English Language because of its reachability and its transistorized nature.
Teachers who replay to the students mostly use tape recorders to record instructions at convenient times. This has enhanced the teaching and learning of English Language over the years in the Nigerian education system. More over, television is another visual material like home video and cinemas it has been utilized in teaching and learning of English Language. Literacy works like Julius Ceaser by William Shakespeare and Things Fall Apart by Chinue Achebe are better illustrated through the use of television and the other visual devices