Review on the use of audio-visual aids as the open educational resources in EFL among secondary education students

Abstract

The ubiquitous nature of internet resources makes it a very essential tool to use in the world of education, especially its immense potential in the learning foreign languages has led to a considerable shift in the approaches used to develop language skills. Nowadays among language skills communication proficiency in the English language takes priority due to consideration it as a mandatory requirement to contribute to economic and cultural growth of a country. Open Educational Resources were introduced as innovative tools in the traditional learning environment with the purpose to create websites to teach and learn without any charge. This article reviews special aspects of OER audio-visual materials’ immense potentialities in particular created with the aim to provide better learning content for effective language acquisition. In order to perform an explicit analysis according to investigation topic several concepts of authors have been considered. Finally, the research evidenced that the use of audio-visual learning resources was found effective owing to its attribute which makes students more motivated and excited about language classes. In addition, authentic content allows learners to practice real-life communication acts which are valuable in order to speak languages fluently and effortlessly. Hence, using audio-visual materials takes on paramount importance in terms of its potential impact on the language skills development.