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the use of pictures will influence their behavior and will finally influence the teaching and learning process.
B. Problem Formulation
From our discussion on the background of the study, the researcher wants to address two research questions, they are as follows.
1. What are the teachers’ perceptions on the use of pictures in teaching English
to young learners? 2.
What are the teachers’ recommendations to improve and maximize the use of picture in teaching English to young learners?
C. Problem Limitation
The discussion of the teachers’ perception on the use of pictures in teaching English to young learners is needed to be limited to make the study possible to be
investigated in-depth. The researcher focuses on digging and exploring any information related to the teachers’ perception, including opinion attitude and feeling
on the use of pictures in the teaching and learning activities and the possible recommendations to improve and to maximize the use of pictures in teaching English
to young learners. Furthermore, the study focuses on the perception of the young learners’
teachers from some schools around Yogyakarta and Klaten. Additionally, the young learners of this research are needed to be limited. Thus, in this research, the young
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learners are the group of children in the age of 7-9 years old or students in the first grade to third grade of elementary school. The researcher chose this age in order to
seek out Piaget’s theory that is children’s cognitive level in the age of 7-11 includes in concrete level. Therefore, in order to dig richer data, the researcher chose the
young learners’ teachers who teach English for the first grade to the third grade of elementary school.
D. Research Objectives
This study is formulated to answer the research questions that are teachers’ perceptions on the use of pictures in teaching English to young learners and the
recommendation to improve and to maximize the use of pictures in teaching English to young learners. Therefore, the researcher tends to investigate and to explore
teacher’s perception on the use of pictures in teaching English to young learners.
E. Research Benefits
