Senin, 14 Maret 2011

Teaching English by Flashcard Media


Teaching the target language need to develop the creativeness to build a strategy how to make the target language easier and can reside in learners’ mind for a longer time not temporarily. The learners guess, that English as a target language is so hard to learn. As a consequence, they are afraid to learn foreign language and surrender before make an attempt. The teachers of English language must afford to create the interesting and simple strategy to teach English. That strategy must make the learners attracted and enjoyable in learning English. Even if, the two words that attributed to the English language namely difficult and crucial can be removed from the learners ‘mind. In addition, the technology media is an alternative choice to smoothen the teaching learning process. Technology media can support the teachers’ presentation in the classroom. Besides that, the technology media will lend a hand to the students to understand the subject of English language. Not all technology media applying for machine. Technology media can be created by the materials that inexpensive and simple.  The simple media is more effective to teach English. Because it can stimulate the ideas that students have.  Besides that, the students will be more creative by using of the simple media. The  utilizing of simple technology media very proper if addressed to the young learners at the Elementary school through the Intermediate school. There are many simple media which is used in teaching learning process. One of them is flash card media.
One of the first learning tools schools utilize to help the learners especially the young learners to develop memorization skills, is the flash cards. Flash cards are very effective for learning English skills like vocabulary. However, they can also be used for developing more advanced skills as well. By using flash card media, the teaching learning process will be more effective. Elizabeth (2007:4) says that a good teacher must be able to teach English effectively. In order that the students will attend, listen to him and try to understand what he teaches in the class. So, Flash card will help the English teachers to teach English attractively. And the students will be interesting and pleasant in the classroom. The most important case, the students will be more appreciate with the English subject which the teacher teaches.
 But recently, most of the English teachers usually teach English subject monotonously. The book is the single media which they use. They teach English according to the book which contains the puzzled course. So, the students will be passive and do not creative. Because in this case, the students’ role just as imitators from the teacher and the role of the teacher more dominant in the class. As the result, the students feel bored in the class and they do not interest with the English subject anymore. Even if, the media that interested and can facilitate the students learning well very needed. Flash card media is the answer to those problems. The employing of the flash card can through a role game that make English subject interesting and easier.  Because, most learners feel that an appropriate lesson consists of traditional tasks with lots of writing and reading, listening to the teacher and speaking with the fellow partners in class during activities. When a lesson consists of a game, then it is not a lesson in the eyes of the young learners, it is greatly appreciated. Still, it is such a lesson that gives the teacher the opportunity to help the learners acquire new forms and lexis in the easiest and most effective way.
What is simple is usually more effective with the young learners who find it difficult to understand a long list of rules. Very often a teacher finds activities in course books that can easily be turned into a game. This game was based on a similar table in the course book for Primary School, used as a drilling activity. By turning flash card into a game, it becomes far more exciting and challenging. So with the using of flash card media, the English teachers will be able to create the exciting and energetic class. Besides that, the students will be more active and creative in the class.

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