introducing audio ــ visuals aids in teaching phonetics to 1st year students:the case of first year students of Enlish at batna university

Abstract

we tried to examine some pedagogical implications which we think they may contribute in helping phonetics’ teachers to visualize the language laboratory as an educational aid in developing students' listening and speaking skills. What is commonly said here is that it is the job of the 'good' teacher to exploit the provided teaching equipments and instructional tools to the full in order to hopefully achieve his teaching goal. In fact, the lack of experience and mastery could never be an excuse for the teacher to waste such a unique and invaluable teaching aid like language laboratory especially when it is equipped with video and computers. Therefore, he should look for real training and establish his own method that suits him to deal with his learners' aural-oral barriers