Audio-visual materials in language classes: how effective in teaching - learning process

The real and ultimate aim of education is all round development of the individual and to create the power of justification. It is universal truth that education is the merely key factor in the development of society and a nation. Therefore, the whole process of education should be easy and effective in all the senses. The educationists, sociologists and researchers have invented a number of methods and materials to make the teaching-learning process easy and effective; as traditional verbal instructions can be boring and painful for students. But the most accepted things which make the teaching-learning process easy, effective and interesting and provides intrinsic motivation to students by peaking their curiosity and stimulating their interests in the subjects that is use of audio-visual aids in this process. The present investigation is a sincere attempt to be acquainted with the effectiveness of audio –visual aids in the process of teaching learning. Twenty teachers and one hundred students of 10th both male and female of government senior secondary schools of capital city comprised the sample. The teachers and students were categorized as experimental and control groups. The self- made questionnaires were used to collect the pertinent data and it was found that the effectiveness of audio-visual aids were significant in teaching-learning process.