Formulation of the Research

Association for Education and Communication Technology AECT defines media as the things used to help the information transfer successfully. 4 In line with AECT, Association for National Education says that learning media are all kinds of communications through either written or spoken form. Media should be used as the channels to help people deliver the information. 5 Based on both definitions above, learning media can be argued as a something that supports the conveying knowledge in the educational process. Teachers may creatively organize or construct the media which are going to be implemented in the classroom depends on the instructional objective. Thus, teachers have authority to select and apply the instrument as a learning media as long as it is appropriate to the curriculum, provided facility, and capacity of school. Quoted from certain book, media is roughly defined as a mediator of communication derived from the Latin word ‘between’, the term refers to anything that carries information between speakers to receivers, and media need such equipment to deliver the information. 6 Actually, communication and media connect to each other. When people communicate with others, they directly use media to convey their intention. It is necessary to carry the information to receiver easily. Therefore, media which are used in the learning process proposes to deliver knowledge to students, and help them comprehend the delivered information quickly. Media in learning are all kinds used to convey the information in the classroom between teachers to the students. It can be printed and non-printed media. Both kinds of media should be something that can be seen, listened, and read by students. Teachers may create, organize, or construct their own media to design an interesting teaching style. In another word, learning media must be something that can be used by teachers to stimulate and attract students’ interest in learning. 4 Arief S. Sadiman, Media Pendidikan: Pengertian, Pengembangan, dan Pemanfaatannya, Jakarta: PT Raja Grafindo Persada, 2005, 5 th Edition, p. 6. 5 Ibid., p. 7. 6 Rudi Susilana, Media Pembelajaran, Bandung: CV Wacana Prima, 2009, pp. 6—7. According to the experts Sadiman, Murcia, Basyiruddin, and Davison, definition of media are basically something that help the communication. Because learning process is also the process of communication between teachers and students, so media are really necessary in learning. It can be concluded that learning media is a prominent element that should be available in teaching and learning process. Media may be channel for teachers to make their information be interesting to students. Therefore, media in learning is possible to help teachers control their students. Hopefully, by using media, they are not forced to study, but students themselves have their own interest to listen and comprehend the information given. Henceforth, media and learning related to each other. Teachers use media to convey their meaning in a better way. Teaching and learning process may occur effectively, so the educational objective can be achieved.

2. The Role of Media in Learning

All kinds of aids which are used in learning are fundamentally to support teaching and learning process. Using one of those aids, learning media, is to create an effective teaching. Therefore, utilizing media in learning can be one of vigorous ways of teachers to help them achieve the learning objective. Essentially, the use of media in learning is to facilitate the interaction between teachers and students. Improving the way of communication in learning is also an effort to improve students’ understanding. Enhancing students’ understanding on the subject taught should be interesting through seeing and listening. It is better for teachers to establish their teaching by stimulating all senses of students than giving much verbalization. Giving information in the classroom by explanation and speech should be decreased to avoid verbalizing, because verbalizing gives less image and experience to students. Learning experience can be conveyed to the students by showing abstract or concrete example. The concrete example given by teachers, the