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English Teaching Aids

Learning and teaching is the concern of the trained teacher. But learning is a complex process. It can however be defined as a change in disposition; a relatively permanent change in behaviour overtime and this is brought about by experience. Learning can occur as a result of newly acquired skill, knowledge, perception, facts, principles, new information at hand etc. Adeyanju, (1997). Learning can be reinforced with learning aids of different variety because they stimulate, motivate as well as arrest learner's attention for a while during the instructional process.

Learning aids are instructional materials and devices through which teaching and learning are done in schools. Examples of learning aids include visual aids, audio-visual aids, real objects and many others. The visual aids are designed materials that may be locally made or commercially produced. They come in form of wall-charts illustrated pictures, pictorial materials and other two dimensional objects. There are also audio-visual aids. These are teaching machines like radio, television, and all sorts of projectors with sound attributes.

It is interesting to note that a large percentage of trained teachers and those undergoing professional training courses can teach with some of the learning aids. They do so consciously because they know that the use have positive effect on learning outcomes as their cognate experiences during teaching practice supervision reveals. In an on-going action research by investigators in Winneba District, a survey sample of teachers with several years of teaching experience of between (03) and twenty-five (25) years, claim that learning aids improve methodology. They also claim that learning aids reduce their talk and chalk method.

Sentence building cards are a teaching aid that is inexpensive and easy to make and use.

They are useful to give learners practice in

word recognition, and sentence recognition and buildin

Sentence building cards are a teaching aid. They allow learners to build sentences by matching individual words to words in a sentence that has already been written

Features
Each set of sentence building cards consists of
a large sentence card with pictures and sentences, and several small word cards.
The large sentence card has several illustrations drawn in boxes down the left side of the card. Each illustration has a sentence written in a box beside it. The illustrations serve as clues to the sentences.
The small word cards have words that match the words in the sentences on the sentence card.
The learner
looks at the pictures reads the sentences, and builds the same sentences by placing the matching word cards in the space below the sentences.
	Alphabet books are sometimes used
	as motivational tools to attract people's attention to books as supplements to primers to help transfer reading skills from one language to another, or to introduce the sounds and letters of an alphabet.

	An alphabet book is a collection of pages that lists and illustrates the entire alphabet.

Features
	Here are some features of an alphabet book. An alphabet book usually contains the following for each letter:
	one or more keywords an illustration of each keyword, and the letter(s) in small and capital letters.
	Variations An alphabet book might include all the letters in a language only the vowels selected vowels and consonants sentences using the keywords and letters paragraphs or stories featuring the key words or letters an entire page of examples of the use of one letter, or several letters on each page.