The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Picture Series

2.3. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Picture Series

According to Yunus 1981:53-54 there are advantages of using pictures in teaching learning process as follows. a. Pictures are very useful for presenting new grammatical and vocabulary items. b. Pictorial material allows for meaningful practice of vocabulary and structure presented by the teacher. c. Pictorial material can also provide a stimulus for using the language at the reproduction and manipulation stages, that is, to speak, to read, to write. d. Pictures can be used for revision from one lesson to another as well as for long term revision of vocabulary and structures. e. Pictorial material can be used to supplement. f. Pictorial material is easy to collect, to make and to transport. The use of pictures can improve students’ motivation to learn and stimulate them to talk. The students become more challenged and motivated to speak English in communication, Wright 1989:7 says that pictures provide students with challenges and opportunities to try to speak. Challenges in this case refer to identify, describe, match, analyze, interpret and convince the content of the pictures. Opportunities refer to the time to express feeling, ideas and to exchange information. Pictures are considered as the appropriate media in teaching speaking. It was hoped that, picture series given could affect the students speaking ability, especially for those aspects of speaking as picture series affected students’ pronunciation and fluency when oral production was produced into a good speech which was easy and intelligible for listener to understand the speech and content. Then, picture series also affected students’ grammar when oral production was produced with correct formula. It was also important when picture series affected vocabulary and content. It could be seen from the words were produced when students were telling a story Media as the supports of the teaching learning process also have disadvantages because something that definitely has advantages also has disadvantages. In this case, there are also disadvantages of picture series, Sadiman, et al 2006:31-32 explains the disadvantages on using picture series. Those are picture series that are too complex are not effective for learning activities and the size is very limited for large groups. To overcome the disadvantages above, the use of picture series in this research had to show the main point of the story clearly done, by choosing a particular picture that will support the lesson. Due to the size, the researcher used big and clear picture series with the size were 20 cm x 30 cm distribute to each student for the teaching learning process of speaking.

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