INDEX
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
1.2. Reasons for choosing the research
1.2Aims of the research
1.3. Scope, object and researching method
2. MAIN CONTENT
2.1.Theoretic basis of the problem
2.2.Realistic basic of the problem
2.3.Solutions to the problem
2.3.1. General introduction
2.3.1.1. What are taching aids
2.3.1.2 Types of teaching aids
2.3.1.3. Main advantages and disadvantages
2.3.1.4. Some principles of using teaching aids
2.3.2. Some common teaching aids used in english classes
2.3.3. Some examples of using teaching aids in english lessons
2.3.31. Teaching pronunciation
2.3.3.2. Teaching vocabulary
2.3.3.3. Teaching writing skill
2.3.4. An English lesson using teaching aids
2.4. Result after applying the research in teaching
3. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
3.1. General overview and enhancement of the study
3.2. Recommendations
REFERENCES
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Reasons for choosing the research
Teaching is a challenging job, whether you are in charge of a traditional public
school classroom or tutoring a single child in a language. Fortunately, there are
many aids and accessories available to make the job easier and more effective.
Teaching aids can be used in almost every English lesson such as : teaching
vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, listening or speaking. There are some reasons
that we should use teaching aids in our English teaching lessons. Teaching aids are
useful to reinforce what you are saying and summarize key concepts, ensure that
your point is understood, signal what is important/essential, enable students to
visualize or experience something that is impractical to see or do in real life,
engage or stimulate students’ other senses in the learning process, facilitate
different learning styles. Using teaching aids as tools in the language classroom is
highly beneficial for students and enhanced the learning process. It helps to
motivate students and makes them more intersted in English. For these reasons, it’s
important and necessary that teaching aids should be included in the lessons
1.2. Aims of the research
- To introduce some common teaching aids used in English
- To show how to use teaching aids effectively
- To help teachers save their time but still have an effective lessons
- To motivate students to learn English
1.3. Scope, object and researching method
1.3.1. Scope : Researching in the process of teaching English at Tran An Chiem
high school.
1.3.2. Object: This subject is concerned with providing some types of teaching aids
and ways of using teaching aids in the classroom.
1.3.3. Researching method: Multi-methods are integrated to conduct this research,
including mainly methods of observation and analysis. Beside, the research is
undertaken as a result of the reality of the long-time process of my daily teaching at
school.
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2. MAIN CONTENT
2.1. Theoretic basis of the problem
Most of the language teachers seem to agree that the use of teaching aids can
enhance language teaching. As they help teachers to bring the real world into the
classroom, they make learning more meaningful and more exciting. Teaching aids
have been an important component of the language classes over the years. They
have been considered a useful tool for teachers in almost every trend of second
language teaching. Apart from being an excellent tool to improve the language
acquisition, the use of teaching aids in the classroom provides a more meaningful
context for the students. All these factors lead students to become more
participative and communicative members of the class group.
Teaching aids can be used in speaking, listening, and writing skills as well as
grammar and pronunciation lessons. Things become easier with the help of
teaching aids. Now that students have every interest in English lessons, they will be
completely ralaxing when learning English. I hope my following research will be
helpful and effective to English teachers
2.2. Realistic basic of the problem
In reality, most students find it difficult to learn English. As a result, they
become passive and afraid to learn it. Some other students feel a little bored with
English classes because they have to remember vocabularies or structures
mechanically.
Most students at Tran An Chiem High school have a low starting point with the
average entrance score of English is about 3 points or abit lower. Therefore,
learning English for them is really a challenging
Using teaching aids in English classes is an effective solution to motivate
students, to make them interested in the lessons and to love English
2.3. Solutions to the problem
2.3.1. General introduction
2.3.1.1. What are taching aids
Teaching aid, as its name suggests, is a kind of aids which support the
teaching and learning activities of teachers and students. While the website
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/teaching+aid defined teaching aids as “materials
and equipments used in teaching”, the other one named
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/teaching%20aid considered teaching aid as
a kind of “material used by the teacher to supplement classroom instruction or to
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stimulate the interest of students”. To put it more specific, a teaching aid is a “tool
used by teachers, facilitators, or tutors to help learners improve reading and other
skills; illustrate or reinforce a skill, fact, or idea; and relieve anxiety, fears, or
boredom, since many teaching aids are like games.”
(http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/Literacy/ReferenceMaterials/
GlossaryOfLiteracyTerms/WhatIsATeachingAid.htm)
In short, teaching aids are the useful materials and equipments which help
create motivation for teaching and learning environment
2.3.1.2. Types of teaching aids
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (N.C.E.R.T.) have
classified various aids as follows:
- Graphic Aids:
Such aids include the following: Photographs and pictures; Flash cards and
strips; Posters; Charts; Diagrams; Graphs; Maps; Cartoons and Comics
- Display Boards
In this are included the following: Black Board, Flannel Board, Bulletin Board,
Magnet Board, and Peg Board.
- Three Dimensional Aids
They are: Models, Objects, Specimens, Puppets and Mobiles.
- Project Aids: Films, Films Strips, and Slides
- Audio-Aids: Radio, Television (TV), and Recording.
- Activity Aids: Field trips, Demonstration, and Dramatics.
2.3.1.3. Main advantages and disadvantages
a. Advantages
- Teaching aids are helpful in attracting attention of the students.
- Teaching aids saves time and energy.
- Teaching aids helps the teacher to create situations for teaching the beginners
- Teaching aids enable the children to retain language items for a longer time.
- Teaching aids gives vividness to the learning situation.
- Teaching aids makes the abstract ideas concrete and thus help in making learning
more effective.
- Teaching aids help in the development of various skills such as, how to draw a
diagram of the topic among the students.
b. Disadvantages
- Take time to prepare
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- Accidental troubles can spoil all the hard work
- Can be noisy
- Distract learners from the main focus of the lesson
2.3.1.4. Some principles of using teaching aids
Teaching Aids must be:
- Well prepared
- Well presented
- Readable
- Legible
- Visible to all
- Appropriate format for room and audience size
- Relevant
- Pertinent to topic
- Up-to-date
- Consistent with local protocols
2.3.2. Some common teaching aids used in english classes
2.3.2.1. Chalk Board
Chalk Board is one of the most essential equipment of the class room and it is an
indispensable aid for the teacher. Chalk Board is a symbol of class room and is a
never failing friend of a teacher.
- It helps the teacher to draw and hold the attention of the students while the
teacher is explaining a concept on the board.
- The important points or the various steps the teacher writes on the board or the
various sketches the teacher draw on the board in explaining a concept will help
the students to correlate in a systematic way aid in better understanding of the
topic.
- Chalk Board teaching will allow more interaction between students and teacher
which will help in active as well as effective learning of the concepts by the
student.
- Chalk Board teaching uses the oral and visual senses which aid in effective
learning of the students.
2.3.2.2. Flash Cards
They are generally used by teachers to teach lower and upper primary classes.
To teach English, a flash card with a picture on one side and its name on the other
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side will be used. This type of flash cards will be used to identify the picture,
alphabets and vocabulary in English language. This type of Flash Cards can be
made by teacher himself or will be available in the market.
2.3.2.3. Power point presentations
A teacher can prepare Power point presentation on any topic in the form of
slides incorporating with graphics and sounds. The topic has to be designed in such
a way that the slides display one by one on the screen. The teacher can explain the
topic by showing slide by slide projected on the overhead screen.
One disadvantage with this teaching aid is if the presentation is not so much
attractive it becomes a failure. This type of method can be advisable to use only at
higher studies like Degree collages, Universities and in professional courses.
2.3.2.4. Colored chalk
Used to teach word order, to differentiate between speakers in a dialogue, and
to illustrate question and answer format; When working with adult learners, even if
you use a textbook, you should consider a range of teaching aids to supplement the
work from the text. This range will help you to address the varying learning styles
and modalities of the learners and also, especially in the case of authentic material,
help prepare them for communication in the real world.
2.3.2.5. Realia
The use of realia is only limited by your imagination and possibly practicality
too. Using realia stimulates the mind, and makes the vocabulary more memorable
than a picture would. Students can, touch , smell, and with a food item, taste it.
Realia saves time, as recognition of an object is often immediate; elicitation of
vocabulary becomes much easier as simply holding up the object with a raised
eyebrow, will usually result in the desired word being spoken.
Realia breathes life into new vocabulary, and the chances of your students
remembering the new words you have taught them, increases. Take the word,
biscuit: the probability of remembering the word becomes much higher after
experiencing the taste, touch and smell of the object. Realia does not have to be
limited to food or drink. Timetables, tickets, newspapers, and clothes may all be
used to help breathe life into lessons, and help provide interest
2.3.2.6. Pictures or photographs: personal, magazine, and others;
Pictures are one of effective aids in teaching vocabulary. They bring “images of
reality into the unnatural world of the language classroom.” (Hill 1990: 1) Pictures
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bring not only images of reality, but can also function as a fun element in the class.
Sometimes it is surprising, how pictures may change a lesson, even if only
employed in additional exercises or just to create the atmosphere.
2.3.2.7. Miming
Mime is useful for the explanation of vocabularies. Such concepts as jumping,
running or the words from, in, under etc. are items easy to explain through
performing those actions.
Mime can be great fun for learners as well. Liliane Bois-Simon (1978: 64-67),
who describes mime, its importance for language learning and how to use it
effectively, asserts that “mime is used mostly by the teacher who has a deliberate
purpose in mind and wants the students to use a particular word or structure
2.3.2.8. Tape recorder and cassette tapes
Studies have shown that some students do not have a long attention span in the
classroom. Tapes in the classroom enable teachers to constantly shift the attention
of the students and hopefully work with the students' short attention spans. Tapes
also allow teachers to take a backseat and not be the focus of the lesson. Whether
using prerecorded activities or recordings in the classroom, tapes provide teachers
a long and varied list of activities for their classroom. The tapes can even be used
in a school or classroom time capsule. Recorded stories are especially beneficial in
younger classrooms to help students read.
2.3.2.9.Mindmap
A mind map, or spidergram, is a strategy for making notes on a topic, prior to
writing. It is a structured strategy, which shows the (hierarchical) relationship of
ideas, as opposed to an unstructured strategy, such as brainstorming, in which
students produce notes at random on paper.
Making a mind map should be a spontaneous pre-writing activity. Students start
with a topic at the centre and then generate a web of ideas from that, developing
and relating these ideas as their mind makes associations.
Mind maps work well as their visual design enables students to see the relationship
between ideas, and encourages them to group certain ideas together as they
proceed. Mind maps work especially well when created in groups, since the
discussion this engenders aids the production of ideas, and makes the task livelier
and more enjoyable
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2.3.2.10. Games such as bingo and concentration: commercial or teachermade;
Games are often used as short warm-up activities or when there is some time
left at the end of a lesson. Using games is one effective and interesting way that
can be applied in any classrooms especially English classrooms.
Games help students to make and sustain the effort of learning.They provide
language practice in the various skills- speaking, writing, listening and reading.
They also encourage students to interact and communicate and create a
meaningful context for language use.'
2.3.3. Some examples of using teaching aids in english lessons
2.3.3.1. Teaching pronunciation
Teaching pronunciation can be easier when using teaching aids. In pronunciation
lessons we can use pictures and audio files to help students pronounce easily.
Below are some examples for illustration
Unit 1 English 10: Teaching vowels /i/ and / i:/
- Teaching aids 1 (Using pictures): Illustrative pictures of tongue positions and
lips postures when pronouncing /i/ and / i:/
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- Teaching aid 2 (Using Tape recorder and cassette tapes): Native voice audio
file of /i/ and /i:/ pronunciation
Combining 2 types of above teaching aids, teachers can help students pronounce
these sounds easily and correctly
2.3.3.2. Teaching vocabulary
Learners acquire vocabulary in various ways. Students are exposed to a lot of
new vocabulary during lessons: by the teacher, by texts or other materials they
work with. A lot of this vocabulary is automatically absorbed.
There are many possibilities how to explain or illustrate the meaning of the
words. In the first place, it is necessary to mention techniques typical for ‘Direct
Method’ as Thornbury 2004) specifies them “using real objects (called realia) or
pictures or mime.” (Thornbury 2004: 78)
* Using pictures
Example for illustration: English 10: Unit 1- Reading – vocabulary
- Vocabulary: buffalo, field, harrow, local tobacco
- illustrative pictures:
This is a buffalo
The man is harrowing
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Field
Local tobacco
In this technique, teacher shows the pictures one by one and asks students:
- What does the word buffalo mean?
- What does the word harrow mean?
- What does the word field means?
- What does the phrase local tobacco mean?
By looking at the pictures, students can easily find out the meanings of these
words and phrases.
* Using realia
Example for illustration: English 10 Unit 5- Reading – vocabulary
- Vocabulary: + different parts of computer systems
+ request for leave
- Realia: keyboard, mouse, speaker, CPU, floppy disks CD Roms, VDU (we can
use toy items instead of real items)
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When teaching these words, teacher show students real objects and let them get
the meanings of these words. With real objects, students will find it easy to learn
vocabularies and they will be more interested in the lesson
You will have probably realized by now that including realia into classroom
involves a great deal of preparation in some cases. Is it really worth you time? The
answer is yes. And your students’faces will be living proofs.
* Miming
Example for illustration: English 12: Unit 3- Reading – vocabulary
- Vocabularies: + wave
+ raise hand
+ jump up
+ whistle
+ nod
+ clap
- Miming: Teacher use his/her actions to mine these words. After each action,
students will tell the meaning of the words the teacher has mined
By using miming technique, teacher can help involve students in the lesson.
And student can remember what they’ve learned for a long time.
Mime and gestures will be able to facilitate communication, understanding and
participation. Additionally, mime and gesture will make you appear to be a more
charismatic teacher. Putting yourself out there, fearlessly, demonstrates confidence.
Your students will therefore be more engaged and more likely to retain what
they’re being taught in the classroom.
2.3.3.3. Teaching writing skill
Mind maps can be one of the most useful aids that help support and develop
students' writing skills.
Example for illustration: English 10: Unit 13- Writing – task 2
-In this task, teacher helps students to choose the film they are going to write about.
Once the topic has been introduced, teacher encourages the students to think about
it and then note down their ideas. From the ideas, teacher togetther with the
students will creat a mindmap to develop these ideas. In this stage teacher can have
the students work in groups or individuals
For example: The film they are going to write about is: Tom and Jerry. We will
have the following mindmap
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Ending
There is a good friendship between them
whenever they are in serious situations
Type of film
cartoon
Plot
the conflicts between a
cat and a mouse namely
Tom and Jerry living
under one roof
Filming place
America by Walt Disney
Entertainment
Corporation
TOM AND
JERRY
envious
Based on
the contrary natural
characteristics of cat and
mouse
Tom
Fond of surpassing
Main characters
Have superficial
Jerry
Quick-minded
Have cunning
After having finished the mindmap, teacher divides the class in to groups. The
class now has a complete mind-map that covers all the questions that the teacher
sets out to cover in task 1 of the lesson. From the mind map they have created,
students will work in groups to produce a complete writing about the film
A mind-map is an effective means to take notes and brainstorm essay
topics.Consequently, mind-mapping technique seems to be particularly suited to
helping students in planning their writing as the approach encourages students to
reach for and adapt a deeper level of understanding of the writing topics.
2.3.4. An english lesson using teaching aids
UNIT 1: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF
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A. READING
I . OBJECTIVES:
1. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students know about activities on a day in the life of farmers
- Language: Sentences and expression for describing someone’s daily routines
- New words: Words related to a farmer’s daily work.
2. Skills: Guessing meaning in context, scanning for specific information and
passage comprehension.
3. Attitude: Students should know what a farmer’s day of work is and sympathize
with farmers’ everyday work
II. METHODS: Integrated, mainly communicative.
III. TEACHING AIDS: Student’s book and pictures showing farmers’ daily
routines, etc.
IV. PROCEDURES
Time
Contents
7 mins I. WARM UP
Game: Clapping the pictures
1. Where does a teacher work?
2. Where does a worker work?
3. Where does a farmer work?
4.Where does a doctor work?
* Pictures
Picture 1
*
Picture 4
Picture 2
Teacher’s and students’
activities
- T explain how to play
the game
- T calls 2 Ss to play the
game
- Ss listen to T’s
questions and clap the
right pictures on the
board
Expected answers
1- picture 2
2- picture 3
3- picture 1
4- picture 4
Picture 3
=> To understand more about the life of a
farmer, today we are going to learn unit 1 “
- T leads in the new
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mins
A day in the life of...”
II. BEFORE YOU READ
Activity 1: Ask and answer the qusetions
about the daily routine.
1. What time do you often get up ?
2. What time do you have breakfast/ lunch /
dinner?
3. What time do you go to bed ?
4. What do you often do in the morning /
afternoon/ evening ?
* Expected asnwers
1. I often get up at 5: 30 am.
2. I have breakfast at 6 o’clock.I have lunch
at 11: 45 pm. I have dinner at 6: 30 pm
3. I go to bed at 10:00 pm
4. In the morning I often do exercise and
then go to work.I often do my home work
and watch T.V in the evening. In the
afternoon I often take a short snap and
prepare the lesson.
Activity 2: Show a picture to describe about
farmers’ daily outine.
lesson
- T askes Ss to open their
book and notebook
- Ss listen to the teacher
and open the book – Unit
1, part A: reading
- T asks students some
questions about the daily
routine.
- Ss answer the qusetions
- T asks Ss to look at the
picture in the book
- T shows Ss to know
about farmers’
daily routine.
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II.WHILE YOU READ
Activity 1: Introducing new words
- Leading the buffalo
to the field
- Plough /plaʊ/ (v) to dig and turn over a
- T provides some new
words, then shows pictures
to explain the meaning of
these words
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field or ather area of land with a plough
The man is ploughing a
plot of land
- Harrow / ‘hærəʊ/ (v) to pull over land that
has been ploughed to break up the earth
before planting.
- Students look at the
pictures and guess the
meaning
- Ss write the new words
on the notebook,
- T guides Ss to read all
the new words
The man is harowing a
plot of land
- Ss read in chorus
- T invites some
- Plot of land /plɒt/ a small area of ground
individual to read the
covered by specific vegetation; "a bean plot”
words.
- fellow /’feləʊ/ (adj) used to describe sbwho
- T checks Ss’
is the same as you in some way or in the
pronunciation.
same situation.
- peasant / ‘peznt/ (n) = farmer who owns or
rents a small piece of land.
- Transplant (v)
- Pump water /pʌmp/
- Contented with - / kən’tentid/ (adj):
showing or feeling happiness or satisfaction,
especially your life is good. = satisfied with
- Go off = ring
- Get ready = prepare
- Chat = talk in a friendly way.
Activity 2: Find out Mr Vy and mr Tuyet’s
activities on the extraboard, using the
information in the textbook
* Extraboar
- T asks Ss to find Mr. Vy
and Mrs Tuyet's activities
on the extraboard.
- Ss work in pairs
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Singing, leading a buffalo, getting up early
, preparing meals for family, doing
homework, care of children, reparing
the bank of the plot of land, teaching,
pumping water transplanting, ploughing
and harrowing, drinking tea, playing games
chatting with friends,
Activity 3: (HAND- OUT)
* Answers
Mr Vy
True False (F)
and Mrs (T)
Tuyet’s
activities
1.
2.
(4:30 am - kitchen)
3.
4.
(In the afternoon)
5.
III. AFTER YOU READ
7 mins
*Talk about Mr Vy and Mrs Tuyet’s daily
routines
IV. COSOLIDATION
2 mins
- Review the whole lesson and focus on the
main information in the text
V. HOMEWORK
1 mins
- Learn by heart the new words
- Do task 3 on page 14 .
- Prepare the next section – section B.
speaking
- T hands out the
worksheet to Ss
- Ss work in group of four
- T goes around class and
helps Ss if necesary
- T asks Ss to close their
books and to talk about
Mr Vy and Mrs Tuyet’s
daily routines or their
parents’ daily routines.
- T asks some Ss to
summarize the lesson.
- T writes the homework
on the board and reminds
Ss to do theirs.
- Ss take note and do the
homework at home
2.4. Result after applying the research in teaching
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After a year of applying this teaching technique, I see obviously that using
teaching aids in language classroom can motivate learners, arouse their interest and
expose them to real language they will face in the real world. In addition, teaching
aids encourage learners to learn a particular language successfully, because they
notice they are dealing with the language in real life.
After using these kinds of teaching aids in the language classes I find it easier to
organize different stages of a lesson such as warm up, presentation, practice and
production. I also can save a lot of time from trying to present or explaining a new
language item and exploit our lessons effectively . The students concentrate more
on the lessons. They find interests in English and find it it easy to perceive,
understand, practise and use the items with confident and creativity. Since then our
students are fond of learning English
Specific results
Before using teaching aids
Class
The
Very
number of Intersted in
students English
Rather
interested in
English
A little
interested
in English
Not
interested
in English
10B1
40
3 (7,5%)
7 (17,5%)
10 (25%)
20(50%)
10B2
41
2 (5%)
8 (19,%)
9(22%)
22(54%)
Rather
interested in
English
A little
interested
in English
Not
After using teaching aids
Class
The
Very
number of Intersted in
students English
interested
in English
10B1
40
8 (20%)
12 (30%)
10 (25%)
10(25%)
10B2
41
8 (19,5%)
12 (29%)
10(24,5%)
11 (27%)
3. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
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3.1. Conclusion
Teaching is not an easy job. Using teaching aids helps the job less boring and
makes students feel more interested in the lessons
With this initiative, I would like to present some effective methods and my
experience in using teaching aids in language classes. This subject is given out with
the hope that all of us will find out the most suitable ways to organize and carry out
our task-teaching in the classes.
With limited time and my limited preparation I really want all of you share
your opinions, constructive comments and experience in using teaching aids to
make my subject more perfectively and our English classes in generally more
creatively, effectively and successfully
3.2. Recommendations
- Material teaching aids should be made available in schools and teachers should
prepare their lessons using teaching aids
- School authorities should assist the teachers by providing necessary materials
such as print out materials, newspapers and magazines for effective teaching in
schools.
- The government should provide teaching aids such as audio visual and audio
lingual aids and make fund available for schools.
- Teachers, however, should be resourceful enough to fashion out simple
material aids, they can use students to prepare them before the lesson starts to
facilitate teaching and learning of essay writing.
Xác nhận của thủ trưởng đơn vị
Thanh Hoá , ngày 10 tháng 05 năm 2018
I hereby declare that this is my innovative
experience and that no parts of the
initiative have been copied and
reproduced by me from any other’s work
without acknowledgement.
Writer
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