The Role of Visual Content in an English Class

Abstract

Visual content, when applied to the planning a lesson with the help of media, grasp students´ focus to the topic introduced in the class, ensure and helps to assimilate knowledge of grammar and language, raise students' level of participating to the class, as well as enable learners to learn by heart the new words and sentence structures. Learning visually also facilitates students to advance imaginative thinking, which is a teaching method whereby the learner gains more language competencies and understand data better by linking ideas, words and events with pictures. Majority of teachers apply visual tools in enabling students understand content better. Teachers appreciate the support that pictures contribute to classroom performance because they motivate language learners to make associations between part of information. The following article evaluates and discusses some of the most helpful ways that visual aids contribute to effective teaching language in English for specific purposes (ESP) classroom.