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Educational Technology and Other Teaching Equipment: TEFL (Teaching English As Foreign Language)

This document discusses educational technology and teaching equipment, focusing on pictures/images and overhead projectors. It outlines various ways that teachers can use pictures, such as for drills, games, understanding meaning, and stimulating discussion. It also notes that overhead projectors allow teachers to prepare and display visual materials, but they require electricity and the image quality can be impacted by factors like room lighting. Overall, both pictures and overhead projectors are described as versatile teaching tools when used appropriately.

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Educational Technology and Other Teaching Equipment: TEFL (Teaching English As Foreign Language)

This document discusses educational technology and teaching equipment, focusing on pictures/images and overhead projectors. It outlines various ways that teachers can use pictures, such as for drills, games, understanding meaning, and stimulating discussion. It also notes that overhead projectors allow teachers to prepare and display visual materials, but they require electricity and the image quality can be impacted by factors like room lighting. Overall, both pictures and overhead projectors are described as versatile teaching tools when used appropriately.

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TEFL (Teaching English as Foreign Language)

Educational Technology and Other Teaching Equipment

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF ARTS

UDAYANA UNIVERSITY

2018
Educational Technology and Other Teaching Equipment

A. Pictures and Images


Teachers have always used picture, graphics, drawn, newspapers, or photograph to
facilitate learning. The pictures can be in the form of flashcards, large wall pictures, cue
cards, or illustrations. Pictures of all kinds can be used in a multiplicity of ways, as the
following examples:

 Drills: with lower-level Students a traditional use for pictures, especially


flashcards. Flashcards are particularly useful for 'drilling' grammar items, for
cueing different sentences or practicing vocabulary. Sometime teachers put the
students in pairs or groups and give them some cue cards so that when a student
picks up the top cue card in a pile, he or she has to say sentence that the card
suggests.

 (Communication) games: pictures are extremely useful for a variety of


communication activities, especially where they have a game-like feel, such as
describes a picture and a paired classmate has to draw the same picture without
looking at the original. We can also divide a class into four groups (A, B, C, and
D) and give each group a different picture that shows a separate stage in a story.
Once of the members of the group have studied their picture, we take it away.
New groups are formed with four members each, one from group A, B, C, and D.
By sharing the information they saw in their pictures, they have to work out what
story the pictures together are telling. Teacher sometimes use pictures for creative
writing. They might tell students to invent a story using at least three of the
images in front of them. They can tell them to have a conversation about a
specified topic, and at various stages during the conversation, they have to pick a
card and bring whatever that card shows into a conversation.

 Understanding: one of the most appropriate uses for pictures is for the presenting
and checking of meaning.
 Ornamentation: pictures of various kinds are often used to make work more
appealing. In many modern course books, for example, a reading text will be
adorned by a photograph which is not strictly necessary. Some teachers and
materials designers object to this use of pictures because they consider it
gratuitous.
 Prediction: the pictures are useful for getting students to predict what is coming
next in a lesson.

- Students might look at a picture and try to guess what it shows (are the people
in it brother and sister, husband or wife and what they arguing about, etc.

- then, they listen to a tape or read a text to see if it matches they expected on
the basis of the pictures.

this use of picture is very powerful and has an advantage of engaging the student
in the task to follow.

 Discussion: pictures can stimulate question such as : what it's showing ? how
does it make you feel ? what was the artist's purposes in designing it in that way ?
is the picture a work of art ?

pictures can also be used for creative language. wether they're in a book, cue
cards, flashcards, or wall pictures. what does are they ?

1. we might ask students to write a description of a picture

2. we might ask them to invent the conversation taking place between two people
in a picture

3. we might ask them to tell the story based on the pictures used their own
imagination.

we can make it in a number of ways like, take pictures from magazines and stick
them on card, we can draw them, we can buy the pictures by photographs or
posters. we must know the important thing for pictures is that they should be
visible.
B. The Overhead Projector

Overhead projects (OHPs) are extremely useful pieces of equipment since they
allow us to prepare visual or demonstration material. They require little technical
knowledge and usually easy to carry around. Just about anything can go on overhead
transparencies (OHTs) :We can show whole text or grammar exercise, pictures or
diagrams, or student’s writing cause transparencies can be put through a photocopier or
get printed from any computer, they can be of very high quality.
Using OHP, students working in groups can list the points they want to make after
they have discussed a topic and show their transparency to the class while they make
their presentation.
Overhead projectors are extremely versatile but they can pose some problems too.
They need electricity of course, and bulbs do fail from time to time. Some models are
quite bulky too. They are not that powerful either, especially when they are up against
natural light coming in from windows and doors.
A lot depends on how big or small the projector ‘square’ is on the wall or screen
and whether the image is in focus. A mistake that some users make is to put too much on
the transparency. However, if all these potential problems are taken into account and
resolved, the OHP is extremely useful resource.

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