Visual Aids As a Tool to Stimulate Creative Thinking in The Language Teaching Process
Rusul Jassim Mohammed
University of Tikrit / College of Dentistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/Lang.8.9.18
Keywords: Visual aids, language teaching
Abstract
This research focuses on the use of visual aids and its effect on stimulating the creative thinking and how it can be used to achieve the progress in language teaching process . Visual aids are those devises that can be used to make the learning process more interesting and helpful , the use of visual aids has a big impact on creativity , thinking in more an easier way and facilitating teaching in all aspects . Visual aids are dominant tools that can be used to support instructors in teaching foreign language and also used to motivate students to engage with particular topics of the lecture . The sample was composed of sixty students that were arbitrarily chosen from first-year morning studies at the College of Dentistry / Tikrit University for the academic year (2023-2024) . Pre and Post-tests have been applied . The data has been composed and statistical results were obtained . The attained outcomes seem acceptable .
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