4. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONBASING ON THE DATA COLLECTED FROM THE SURV...

3.4. Findings and discussion

Basing on the data collected from the survey questionnaire for both of the teachers and students

and the informal interviews with the teachers, the results show that:

Both of the teachers and students at LQD gifted high school have positive attitudes

towards the use of visual aids in teaching and learning English vocabulary. The teachers at LQD

gifted high school tend to use different types of visual aids that are tested. However, they still

restrict themselves to some types of visual aids only. Another finding is that the ways the teachers

exploit visual aids in teaching vocabulary are rather limited. As mentioned previously, the

teachers mainly employ visual aids to present new words during their vocabulary teaching,

whereas they rarely use visual materials to help their students practise and retain the new words.

Regarding the last question aiming at finding out the possible problems faced by both the

teachers and the students while teaching and learning vocabulary though visual aids. It can be

concluded that despite their numerous benefits brought to the teachers’ and the students’, visual

aids still bring their users some challenges. For the teachers, they faced such problem as the lack

of time to prepare, the lack of time when using, difficulties in finding suitable visual materials,

money consuming and difficulties in preparing as well. For the students, a number of the students

still find learning vocabulary though visual aids confusing, distracting or difficult to understand,

which require the teachers to re-examine if they exploit visual aids properly or not.

PART C: CONCLUSION