18 state that the media give more opportunities for the students to practice more and
give feedback to them.
5. Photographs are Cheapest and Simplest
More experts that conduct research on the benefit of picture in the teaching are Gerlach and Ely. Gerlach and Ely 1980, claim that the use of picture in the
teaching learning process has some advantages. The advantages of the picture include: 1 the picture is inexpensive and widely available, because the price of
the picture is relatively cheaper than the others media and it can be taken from magazines, newspapers, calendars, and etcetera. In brief it can be said that picture
like photograph is cheap and widely available. Picture also provides info to avoid misconception and also increase the depth of understanding to the concepts. The
picture can also help students to develop critical judgment p. 277. However, the teacher cannot simply choose any picture randomly. There are
five criteria that teacher should consider when choosing photographs as media for teaching. According to Wright 1989 media for teaching learning process should
be 1 simple to prepare. It means that the teacher can prepare the photos easily, not too complicated, cheap, and can be made with the existing device like camera
from smartphone, pictures from newspaper, and also internet, 2 easy to organize. The photograph for teaching should be easy to organize, not too difficult to
collects, easy to print and then put them in a certain container, easy to divide and categorize according to topic and time sequence.
19
6. Photographs Help in Teaching New Vocabulary and Grammar
Siti 2012 elaborates that the benefits of the implementation of pictures in teaching writing could:
1 improve the students’ writing skills in four aspects of writing skills that include content, vocabulary, language use and organization, 2
improve the students’ motivation in teaching and learning process of writing, and
3 maximize the teaching and learning process of writing p. 113 According to Wright 1989, the crateria should be considered is 5
Photographs should have sufficient amount of language. It means that the photographs should give rise to a sufficient amount of language in the language
lesson.
Kategori