A. What Are Instructional Media?
There
are a lot of definitions of media. Gagne (1970) defines that media are various
components in learners’ environment which support the learners learn. Briggs
(1970) defines media are physical means which are used to send messages to the students
and stimulate them to learn. A little beat differences from the opinions of the
two experts. The National Education Association defines that media are the forms
of communication either printed or audiovisual.
B. Why We Use Instructional Media
Media
is very useful in learning the English language. Teachers instructors and
learners are helped by using media
to achieve the learning goals. So, The teachers should apply the media in teaching
- learning activities because:
1. Instructional media can be solved
the lack of the learners’ experiences. Learners have different background such
as family life, society, social economic, etc. Learners who live at different
areas will have different experiences, because they have different environment,
society, social economic, etc.
2. Instructional media can be
reached everything out of the class. There are so many things around the learners
that can not be reached by themselves, such as: bacteria, virus, etc. To know
and see those tiny things, we must use a microscope as a media. We use a
picture to present things which cannot be brought into the classroom such as: markets,
stations, harbors.
3. Instructional media are created
the possible direct interaction between the learners and their environment.
4. Media are producedsome
observation. The learners’ observation can be directed into the important things
based on the teachers aims.
5. Media can be kept the basic, concrete and real concepts of
the teaching.
6. The learners’ motivation are aroused by using media in
learning.
7. Media are integrated the
experience from the concrete things to the abstract ones. It is stated by De
Porter and Hernacki (2000) in Quantum Learning that audio visual can be created
optimally, physically, and mentally through learning environment. The important
thing is that using media can be encouraged the learners to speak and to write.
C. Kinds Of Media
There
are so many instructional media are used in teaching that starting from the
simplest or cheapest ones to the most complex ones, without the need of the
electricity, up to the most expensive ones which needed the electricity.
Vernon
(1996) states that there are six kinds of media;
1. Drawing or teacher mode drawings
This
media can be constructed and supported the topic which is being taught. The
teacher can prepare it at home and apply it easily in the class to achieve the
goals of the teaching and learning process.
2. Still pictures
This
media can be shown into the real objects or the events of outside the class. A
still picture is a record or a copy of a real object or event which may be longer
or smaller than the real object or events, for examples: photograph, bulletin
board material, brochure, etc.
3. Audio recording
Recording
is a mode of magnetic, on disc,or on motion picture soundtracks. This is the
reproduction of actual event of sound effects. Sound is presented in the
sequence in which they actually happen unless the recording is edited. Audio
recording may be used individually or displayed directly to the audience.
4. Motion picture and TV
A
motion picture or video tape recording is a moving image on color or black and
white produced from live action or from graphic presentation. Objects or events
maybe in normal motion and edited for abbreviating or high lighting. It can be
silent or having sound. All types of audio-video electronic system can be appeared
on a cathode ray tube or TV monitor.
5. Real object, simulation and
models
This
category includes people, events, objects and demonstration. Real objects
as contrasted with other media are
not substituted by the artificial objects or events. They are, in fact, life,
often in its natural setting. There are countless real objects in the immediate
community. As long as they are readily and economically available, use them.
Simulation is the replication of real situation which has been designed to be
as near actual events or process as possible. A model is a replica or reality.
It is often in scale and may be in miniature, exact side or an enlargement.
6. Programmed and computer-assisted
instruction
Programs The example of a computer-assisted
instruction are sequences of information which are designed to elicit
predetermined response. The most common examples are programmed text books or instructional
programs prepared for computers.
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