The use of audio-visual instructional materials in teaching.

1. Still pictures,
Recordings and
Radio

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This are visual and auditory devices which may be used
by an individual or a group.
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Can often be understood by those who have difficulties
in reading.
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Helpful to students who cannot deal with the motion or
pace of a real event or television.

3. Examples:
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Time Life Magazine
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Listening to old radio broadcast
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Listening to period music

4. Still Pictures
Several functions of still pictures in the teaching-learning process:
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Pictures can transform abstract ideas into more realistic forms.
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They can bring students closed to the very point of visual context with reality itself.
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It can change the size of an object too small or too large to be visually understood in its
actual dimensions.
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It can save the teacher's time and energy.
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Pictures can assist the prevention and correction of misconceptions.
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Pictures are very important in helping students to retell experiences or understand
something since they can represent people, place, etc.

5. Example:
● Picture Sequence

6. Recordings
- Can be a very useful assistive tool
when creating and adding to existing
learning materials.

7. ● Audio recordings can be used to enhance text resources.
Example:
– Providing comments or context to an academic paper.
● It can engage students' attention when studying on their
own or when learning difficult subject matter.

8. How recordings can be used?
● Student Feedback
● Record Evidence
● Interviews
● Live Online Discussions
● Audio Source Materials
● Oral History Materials

9. Radio
- The radio broadcast of an actual event may
often be likened to a televised broadcast minus
its visual dimension.
-The use of radio for educational purposes began
with the BBC's school broadcasting services in
1924.

10. Advantages of using Radio:
● Radios could operate on batteries.
● Radio maintenance was far simpler and more accesible
● Teachers did not have to learn how to operate new
technology.

11. ● “We learn English”
- A bilingual radio program for teaching Spoken English.
● “Let's Read and Write English”
- A bilingual radio program accompanying reader-cum-activity book for students.