Types of Teaching Aids

Introduction The process of teaching and learning usually related to the way teacher produce the lesson in the classroom. The common techniques that usually teacher use in the classroom is chalk and talk. They never think about pupils’ interest for their teaching process. For teacher herself in the past, preparing teaching aids is a burden and waste of time. As for pupils, without good teaching aids as a second source of information, they will face a difficulty in understanding the lesson. Tomlinson (2001) has given a clear definition of teaching materials. According to him, ‘materials include anything which can be used to facilitate the learning of a language. They can be linguistic, visual, auditory or kinesthetic.’ (p. 66). However, in era of technology, preparing teaching aids is not so burden. There are plenty of teaching aids available in the internet. Teacher just needs to find the right teaching materials that can suit the best to their lesson. There a few types of teaching aids that can be use by a teacher to deliver their lesson more interesting and accurately. From the simples as textbook to the more complicated such as software that require pupils explore more. However, there are still some teachers that prefer to use chalks and talk during their period. New materials as teaching aids now can easily be used by teacher such as YouTube, DVD, emails and a few others. In other mean that ESL teachers should always adapt materials to be used in the classroom to ensure that they fit into the local contexts and pupils able to understand.

Types of teaching aids Pupils can become bored sitting in a classroom for hours. Teaching aids can provide a welcome break for pupils who have been sitting for awhile and listening to a teacher lecture in front of the classroom. Teacher can use various teaching aids besides textbooks to increase pupils’ interest and demonstrate how things work. Visual aids, such as whiteboards or chalkboards, charts, maps, flash