Electronic visual aids facilitating the foreign language teaching and learning for specific purpose

Abstract

English has been established as a lingua franca in the Global world. Consequently, employers require from their employees’ high standards of English communication skills, knowledge and competences which can be achieved by implementing visual aids facilitating the language teaching and learning for specific purpose. Visual aids are supposed to intensify and raise the quality of teaching and learning of students in the classroom. Moreover, many universities have managed to use the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity for modernization foreign language programs, curriculum content and helped modernize the way of work and study for the better. This shift in studying languages has encouraged education to implement advanced electronic use practices in language methodology. The article scrutinizes the views of students and teachers on implementing new electronic technologies such as visual aids in learning a foreign language for specific purpose. Implementing new technologies such as visual aids into the language learning and teaching environment, specifically for a new generation of students there is no longer a problem as they are technology savvy. What concerns teaching the foreign language for specific purpose, it is significant to be aware of what to teach and how to teach it. According to the analysis of the findings, using el.visual aids improve mainly communicative skills competencies: the learners learn a significant number of lexis, improve pronunciation, enunciation, clarity, pace, projection, and other speaking sub – skills.