DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENT’S DISCOURSE SKILLS THROUGH TEACHING BY USING VISUAL MATERIAL

Abstract

Development of discourse skills is a lifetime process. However, school offers a great variety of discourse that helps in that development. For us, an undeniable connection between discourse skills occurring in childhood and the ones developing during school years is important. Having in mind communication in different situations, as well as the main purpose of teaching, development of these skills is necessary during foreign language teaching. The aim of this paper is to explain the importance of visual material and to highlight its support and productiveness in terms of development of discourse skills in children. It seems that the there is a lot to gain from this type of teaching and that the effectiveness of this material is irreplaceable when we talk about visualization of a certain context. We emphasize communicative teaching as a technique used to accomplish better results in this process of development. This paper also offers practical pieces of advice for working with visual material, and theoretical framework for the development of discourse skills with the help of visual aid will be provided.