General Concept of Learning Media

indicates that someone or something is directly facing someone or something else e.g. The museum is just opposite the post office.

2.2 General Concept of Learning Media

Media play an important role in a teaching and learning process. Media are needed to reach the objectives of teaching-learning process. Media, the plural form of medium, are derived from Latin word “medium”. Media is also considered as instructional system of teaching learning process. It is used in order to facilitate the teacher to achieve the goal of the teaching learning process. According to Gerlach and Ely 1980:241, a medium is any person, material, or event that establishes conditions which enables learners or students to acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes. Brown 1977:2 also defines media as the tools or the physical things used by a teacher to facilitate the instruction. From the definition above, it can be concluded that media are substances such as pictures, charts, graphs that will be very useful if they are carefully and creatively prepared by the teacher, then they are used effectively to transmit or deliver messages to motivate students in learning. According to Rowntree in Rohani, 1997: 7-8, educational media have functions: 1 Motivate students to study. 2 Review what students have learnt. 3 Give a stimulus to study. 4 Activate students‟ responses. 5 Give a feedback soon. There are a lot of media in teaching learning process. Gerlach and Elly 1980: 297 classify media into five general categories: 1 Picture Picture consists of photographs or any object or events, which may be larger or smaller that the object or event it represent. 2 Audio recording Recording is made on magnetic tape, disc, motion picture, and soundtrack. There are reproductions of actual event or soundtrack. 3 Motion picture A motion picture is a moving image in color or black and white produced from live action or from graphic representation. 4 TV This category includes all types of Audio Video Electronic distribution system which eventually appear on TV monitor. 5 Real things, simulation, and model Includes people, events, objects, and demonstration real things as constructed with other media, are not substituted for the actual object or events.

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