Aids for the Communication Syllabus

Abstract

Audio-visual aids take time to prepare. Having made an aid, a teacher often uses it for a particular lesson and then it is put away until the teacher uses it to teach a similar lesson later on. Because of this, many teachers, especially those in secondary schools are reluctant to make aids as they feel they have to make a large number of aids to teach the various aspects of the syllabus. This should not be the case; aids should be versatile. Having made an aid, a teacher should be able to use it in different teaching situations. I have taken just one set of audio-visual aids to show that all the areas in the Communication Syllabus can be taught with these. This, of course, is to prove my point, but to use the same aid over and over again may defeat the purpose for which it was intended in the first place. A number of such aids should be developed by the teacher and their potential for use also listed down so that these can be used to cover the syllabus as a whole.