Rabu, 02 Juli 2014
As
we know, English is an International Language so English is the important thing
for communicate around the world. Nowdays, English is a second language can
easily be studies by young learner after they got first language. The young
learners must learn English because they face globalization era. In Indonesia
Elementary school learners use English as a local content subject. By using
language, we are able to
express our ideas and feeling. In Indonesia, English learned by the students as
a foreign language. English must be taught as early as possible because it is a compulsory
subject from kindergarten until the university. For the junior high school
student, English is very important to be learnt. Especially
with vocabulaty, the students are expected to be able to mastery in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
The
improvement of students’ vocabulary in learning English depends on the
teacher’s strategy because teaching English in elementary school is not easy,
it is different from teaching adults in secondary schools. Huyen (2003: 1) stated: “most students learn
vocabulary passively due to several factors . First, they consider the
teacher’s explanation for meaning or definition, pronunciation, spelling, and
grammatical functions boring. Second, the students only think of vocabulary
learning as knowing the primary meaning of new words. Third, the students
usually only acquire new vocabulary through new words in their text books. Fourth, many learners do not want
to take risks in applying what they have learn”.
In teaching English, teachers are obliged to choose any suitable
teaching media in order to achieve the teaching objective easily, so that the
student will be motivated to learn more. Teacher who area able to presents the
material easily will be students’ idol. In applying teaching media, the teacher
should consider many things like teaching material, students’ level, classroom
management and many other aspects, because the use in appropriate technique
could cause many difficulty or the students and the teachers fail in teaching
them and would also be burden for.
In this study, I would like to show a simple and interesting teaching media in presenting
vocabulary items to the fifth year student, which is called Flannel Board. As
one of language teaching media such as Flannel Board have very significance
role to make the teaching and learning activity more interesting. Many example
of language teaching and learning English that don’t make the students bored.
By media
we mean all aids which may be used by teacher and learner to attain certain
education objectives. We shall restrict ourselves in some respect in our
treatment of media which may be used in FLT, only those media which have a
direct contribution to make to teaching/learning process will be discussed. We
shall also restrict ourselves to the use of media in the classroom.
1.
Picture
Flannel Board
a.
Definition
of Picture Flannel Board
Flannel board is a board which is the one faced of board covered by
flannel-cloth and in this face we can touch many kind of picture and give the
students some contributions to rich the vocabulary mastery.
b.
Flannel
Board as Media in Teaching Vocabulary
One of media in teaching
English is Flannel Board. The effort of the linguist has strong basic because
the learner entertained with their everyday life, give chances to the student
to more creatively because Flannel Board as media in teaching English
vocabulary is very effective and more interested because the students will be
memorized the vocabulary because the enjoying the picture in the flannel. So
that using Flannel Board in teaching vocabulary will give achievement acquiring
English.
Flannel Board can increase
motivation to learn the English for the students. They also have to add
advantage of being memorable the words much less likely that the students will
forget the words, and therefore the language practice in it, whereas language
practice in even well constructed drill is usually very quickly forgotten and
finally, Flannel Board which helps to bring the students memorize more word.
c.
Technique of Presenting Picture Flannel Board
As a good teacher, we have to know how to
conduct picture flannel board in the class order to make student understand
what they will do in playing picture flannel board itself.
There are some procedure to apply the teachig
vocabulary using picture flannel board:
a) The teacher explain and give an example to play
picture flannel board.
b) The teacher sticks the illustration on the board. The
teacher ask to the students go forward to answer the question based on the
picture on the board.
c) The teacher give the clue such as
name of animal on the board then the students go forward to answer the
question, the students stick the picture on the board.
Example or Picture Flannel Board
d.
The
Function of Flannel Board
There are many functions of
puzzle in the teaching of vocabulary given by linguists. The function of
Flannel Board could be divided into four kinds, such as:
a. To enlarge vocabulary
b. To increase vocabulary
c. To deepen vocabulary
Reference :
Nguyen, Thi Thanh Huyen & Khuat, Thi Thu Nga,(2003),The Effectiveness of learning vocabulary through games, Asian EFL Journal Quarterly, 5 (4), Available oline at:http://www.asian-efl-journal.com (acessed 26 Narch 2013)
http://laico.org/v2020resource/files/flannel_board.htm (acessed June, 10 2013)
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