Although the educators of today are increasingly emphasizing the necessity of more scientific, modernized teaching-learning process, it seems that the conventional type of teaching and learning by means of text books, chalk, and blackboards alone is s...
Although the educators of today are increasingly emphasizing the necessity of more scientific, modernized teaching-learning process, it seems that the conventional type of teaching and learning by means of text books, chalk, and blackboards alone is still in general use. In such a traditional type of classes, there prevails only the teacher-centered activities devised chiefly through the teacher's own experience and judgement. We can expect no scientific, effective instruction from such a traditional class. We must, at this occasion, develop the more scientific, effective, and economical teaching methods, which can be resulted only by the use of tapes, records, radio and television programs, and other audio-visual aids.
This treatise deals with the various types of teaching machines in connection with effective methods of teaching English as a foreign language. Especial attention is paid to the audio materials such as tape recorders and language laboratories.
Chapter one and two discuss the necessity of introducing educational technology into English langnage classes for varions reasons. Chapter three reviews and critisizes the existing problems involved in the modern English education, and suggests more effective means of teaching English by the use of audio-visual aids. The remaining chapters deal mainly with the more specific suggestions and problems in handling the individual mechanical devices such as phonographs, tape recorders, and language laboratories. These chapters also cover some aspects of educational problems of the radio and the television programs as teaching aids in English classes.