4 motivation: for all the reason so far mentioned, most students show an
increased level of interest when they have a chance to see language in use as well as hear it, and when this is cup led with interesting tasks.
Teacher‟s creativity including in using media will affect the students‟ result in learning. Video is one of the media that is appropriate to be used in
teaching English as the target language. Thus, the BBC Nature video as an alternative medium in teaching is to give several advantages and contribution to
teaching-learning process. The BBC Nature Video is to help the teaching-learning process effectively since it enables the process of transferring the materials being
taught more effectively. It is also to gain and enhance students‟ motivation and
interest to actively engage themslves into the instructional process. By watching it, students hopefully are able to be more interested and motivated, make teacher‟s
explanation clearer, increase the quality of the learning process can be gained, as well as creating an interactive, effective, and meaningful teaching learning
process. Not to mention, the most important thing 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 BBC Nature video as medium in teaching, espeacially writing descriptive text, pictures
are used as the comparison of this medium. 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 teaching media.
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 stated 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 2001
:3 explained that “pictures are clearly indispensable for language teachers since they can be used in
many ways.“ Therefore, it is 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 medium 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 teachers facilitate teaching-learning process.
2.2.3.2 Categories of Picture Pictures are varied based on their forms. As Gerlach and Ely 1980:273-308
categorized pictures into : 1
Still pictures are a record or a copy of a real object or event which may be larger or smaller than the object or event it represents.
2 Audio recordings are reproduction of actual events or of motion picture
sound tracks.
3 Motion pictures are a moving image in color or black and white produced
from live action or from graphic representations. 4
Television includes all types of audio-video electronic distribution systems which eventually appear on a cathode ray tube television monitor.
5 Real things, simulations, and modelincludes people, events, objects, and
demonstrations. 6
Programmed and
computer-assisted instructionare
sequences of
information verbal, visual, or audio which are designed to elicit predetermined responses. The most common examples are programmed
textbooks or instructional programs prepared for computers. One kind of pictures that can be used as medium in teaching learning
process is still picture. Still picture is ordinary picture. It is important for the teacher to select suitable pictures in teaching and learning process. The pictures
that are going to be used are to see the students‟ reaction especially in improving
their idea in making sentences and simple paragraph. 2.2.3.3 Definition of Flash Card
According to Google Dictionary, flash card is a card containing a small amount of information, held up for students to see, as an aid to learning. In addition to that
definition, in wordnetweb.princeton.eduperlwebwn, it said that “flash card is a
card with words or numbers or pictures that is flashed to a class by the teacher ”.
Flash Cards are easy and effective tools for learning mathematics and any language. Designing flash card needs preparation wherein the teachers have to
collect and review the study material. www.holdthatword.comblog.
2.2.3.4 Flash Card as one of Media in Teaching The success of teaching learning process is not only determined by a single factor
for there are many factors related beyond. Those factors are tied-together affectingthe success in achieving the goal. Thus, all of the components should be
broughtinto the classroom and applied properly. Flash Card is one of media which is to help the teacher draws the
students‟interest and encourages their motivation. The motivated students will certainlyparticipate actively and learn better during the teaching and learning
process. Yet,the teacher should be able to plan and organize the instructional design, theconducive learning atmosphere, and the attractive learning activities to
stimulatethe students in engaging themselves to produce and use English communicatively.Therefore, teachers use media to incorporate their strategy in
fulfilling their lesson objectives.
It is necessary for teacher to select the appropriate flash card used in the classroom. The flash card must be selected in a way that is appropriate tothe topic
being presented and relevant to attract students‟ interest. In this case, I use flash card as media to help the students receive the materialsdelivered easily and
express their ideas and feelings as the comparison method forusing BBC Nature video teaching process.
2.2.4Comparison of BBC Nature Video and Flash Card as Media
Based on the theory above, BBC Nature Video and Flash Cardcan be use as media to
improve students‟ writing skills of descriptive texts. This section will present about the comparison of both media.
In the term of media, both BBC NatureVideo and Flash Card are called instructional media. They carry message with an instructional purpose. The
purpose of instructional media is to facilitate communication and to enhance learning. Their primary role is to help students learn. One way they do this is by
providing an information and media can also provide stimulated experiences. In addition, BBC Nature Video and Flash Card here, are categorized as
visuals or picture that are two dimensionalmaterials that designed to communicate a message to students. They usually include verbal elements as well as graphic
elements. Visuals here can increase appeal by attracting attention as well as stimulating though and inquiry.
In spite of the similarity, both of them also have differences, BBC Nature Video here is categorized as motion picture with sound. Video is the display of
recorded pictures on a television-type screen. However, flash card is categorized as still picturethat is a record or a copy of a real object or event which may be
larger or smaller than the object or event it represents. Dealing with the component of each medium, Flash card is classified as
Non technical media. It presents obvious advantages in settings where electricity in unreliable, technical resources are scarce, or funding is limited. Other
advantages of the form of media included in this category are their low cost, their
availability, their accessibility, and their user-friendliness. BBC Nature Video is classified as technical media, although these forms of media are costlier and less
user-friendly than the nontechnical media, they carry with them a larger degree of “psychological reality” in that they can bring the outside world in all its
complexities into the classroom. In fact, since students in today‟s language classes tend to surround themselves with technology in their daily lives, they may grow to
expect it in the language classroom as well. From the explanation above, it can be seen that BBC Nature Video and
flash card have some similarity and differences. Therefore it can be concluded that both of them are comparable.
2.2.5 General Concept of Writing
