International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 5

Importance of Using images in EFL Classroom to enhance the teaching of English language in Bangladesh

  • Author:
  • Mohammad Kafil Uddin1, Mohammed Humayun Kabir2
  • Total Page Count: 14
  • Page Number: 518 to 531

1Assistant Professor, CENURC, IIUC

2Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, IIUC

Online published on 10 March, 2016.

Abstract

This paper aims at exploring the impact of images or photographs on young learners when they attempt to learn a foreign language in Bangladesh. Traditionally, books are most common teaching materials that we find being used in the classrooms around the globe. With the passage of time, language specialists discovered that a foreign language learning becomes easier and smoother if some psychological aspects are considered while young learners are taught. Exploiting images in language teaching is one of them. Young learners do not admire or appreciate a highly disciplined classroom teaching environment rather they welcome fun activities in the classroom. So, teachers can seize the opportunity and capitalize it when they teach young children in Bangladesh. We reviewed the current data base of literature, looked at more modern theories and effects of visuals on learning as well as suggested practical applications for the classroom. This study found that images help learners learning a foreign language more easily and proficiently