Brief notes on the significance of audio-visual aids

Significance of Audio-Visual Aids: Audio Visual aids accomplish following when used properly.

(1) The use of audio visual aids in classroom teaching stimulates interest in pupils. This leads to the whole hearted attention on the part of learner, which ultimately develop a linking for subject.

(2) Audio visual aids bring the past into the present and cover the records of years and even centuries into a. short period of minutes.

(3) These aids help in making the whole world a real audience of events occurring in the various parts of the world.

(4) Audio visual aids break the monotony of school routine and are always welcomed by pupils as a happy change in the classroom.

(5) When audio visual aids are employed, the response of the class is always better.

(6) The use of audio visual aids provides a stimulus to pupils for making good use of textbooks rather than depending on guides.

(7) They make teaching matter lively and interesting.

(8) It helps children to observe things in their most natural setting.

(9) They help to get a clear understanding by helping pupils to see and visualise things which can be best and most clearly understood with the help of visual aids only.

(10) The visual aids are also found to be useful for the mass entertainment of an intellectual type.

(11) They also contribute to the growth of meaning and hence to vocabulary development.

(12) Audio visual instructions contribute to accurate thinking by furnishing some of the basic raw material for thought and it can fill the storehouse of memory with nonverbal experience.

(13) Visual materials can be particularly used to provide new experiences or to correct wrong impressions.

(14) A good visual perception helps attitude formation. Classroom study situations based on concrete experiences can create a good understanding of subject.

(15) Audio visual material are time saving. A small picture or diagram can explain things which require pages and pages of written words.

(16)The topic taught with the help of visual aids are comparatively easy to understand and therefore, they interest the children more than the mere description of anything through talk.