Incorporating Visual Arts into English Language Teaching

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ENGLISH Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.34293/english.v8i4.3320

U. Thulasivanthana

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Abstract

Most English language learners in SVIAS consider learning English as a complex, tiresome, and uninteresting endeavor. They face unprecedented trials and tribulations in learning English as an additional language. Therefore, finding ways to stimulate learner involvement and motivation has become important for English language teachers. Current teaching methods, materials, and resources seem inadequate to fulfill the students’ attitudes, skills, interests, and needs. This experimental study examines whether integrating visual arts activities contributes to positive results for the students who would like to improve their English language skills. In addition to the experimental study, classroom observations were conducted. Arts can make learning exciting, unforgettable, and interesting. The advantages of incorporating arts in education have been extensively delineated in recent studies. Using arts in English language teaching helps to make learning exciting and unforgettable, decrease language learning anxiety, improve classroom atmosphere, increase memory and motivation, and build rapport with learners. This study aims to show the impacts of using contents visual arts in the English language classroom. The findings can assist English language teachers in promoting the use of contents related to visual arts in English class to cater to a range of preferences, strengths, and learning styles.

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将视觉艺术融入英语教学

SVIAS中的大多数英语学习者认为学习英语是一项复杂、乏味和无趣的努力。他们在学习英语这门附加语言时面临着前所未有的考验和磨难。因此，找到激发学习者参与和动机的方法对英语教师来说变得很重要。目前的教学方法、材料和资源似乎不足以满足学生的态度、技能、兴趣和需求。这项实验研究考察了整合视觉艺术活动是否有助于提高学生英语语言技能的积极结果。除了实验研究外，还进行了课堂观察。艺术可以使学习变得令人兴奋、难忘和有趣。在最近的研究中，艺术融入教育的优势已经得到了广泛的阐述。在英语教学中运用艺术有助于使学习变得令人兴奋和难忘，减少语言学习焦虑，改善课堂气氛，增加记忆力和动力，并与学习者建立融洽的关系。本研究旨在展示在英语课堂中使用内容视觉艺术的影响。研究结果有助于英语教师在英语课堂上推广视觉艺术相关内容的使用，以满足各种偏好、优势和学习风格。

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期刊介绍： English is an internationally known journal of literary criticism, published on behalf of The English Association. Each issue contains essays on major works of English literature or on topics of general literary interest, aimed at readers within universities and colleges and presented in a lively and engaging style. There is a substantial review section, in which reviewers have space to situate a book within the context of recent developments in its field, and present a detailed argument. English is unusual among academic journals in publishing original poetry. This policy embodies the view that the critical and creative functions, often so widely separated in the teaching of English, can co-exist and cross-fertilise each other.