to help the teaching-learning process effectively since they enable the process of transferring the materials being taught more effectively. They also are to gain and
enhance students’ motivation and interest to actively engage themslves into the instructional process. Watching them, students hopefully are able to be more
interested and motivated, teacher’s explanation clearer, the quality of the learning process can be gained, as well as creating an interactive, effective, and meaningful
teaching learning process. And not to mention, the most important is the attainment of the lesson objective effectively.
2.2.3 Picture as Teaching Media
In spite of the fact that the purpose of this study is to investigate the use of documentary films in BBC VCD as media in teaching, espeacially writing report,
pictures are used as the comparison of these media. Therefore, the discussion related to the notion of picture must be presented briefly in this chapter. This
chapter discusses the definition of picture, categories of picture, and picture as one of media in teaching.
2.2.3.1 Definition of Picture
Picture is one of media applied in order to help and facilitate teaching and
learning process in achieving its objectives. As Gerlach and Elly 1980:273 state
that “a picture may not only be worth a thousand words – it may also be worth a thousand years or a thousand miles” since “through pictures, learners can be
shown people, places, and things from areas far outside their own experiences.” Harmer 1983:3 explains that “pictures are clearly indispensable for
language teachers since they can be used in many ways.
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Therefore, it is a
common that “teachers have always used pictures or graphics, whether drawn, taken from books, newspaper and magazine or photograph to facilitate their
teaching and learning process” Harmer, 2001:134. In short, picture can be interpreted as media in teaching in the form of two-
dimentional visual showing people, places and things far outside the experiences. It is also the medium to help in facilitating teaching-learning process.
2.2.3.2 Categories of Picture
Pictures are varied based o their forms. As Gerlach and Ely 1980:273-308 categorized pictures into four types, which can be found in the forms of 1 still
picture, 2 filmstrip,3 slides, and 4 overhead transparencies. They state that “still picture are visual representation of person, places, or things, which are two
dimensional and have characteristics, such as they may be drawn, printed, or
photographically processed, abstract and they vary in size and color.”
A filmstrip is a film, which contains a series of still pictures intended for projection in sequence. Sound filmstrip, which comes from a tape or disc
recording sometimes, is run automatically with proper equipment. A slide is film transparencies contained in frame. The most common is
two-in by two-inch slide. Slides can be used with a slide projector or viewer. An overhead transparency is a copy of something on plastic, which has
been prepared for used on overhead projector. An overhead projector is a device, which project plastic on a screen. It can be placed on the table in front of the
learners.
2.2.3.3 Picture as one of Media in Teaching
