Pictures as Media in Teaching Vocabulary The procedure of Teaching Vocabulary by Using Pop-up Pictures

teacher we don’t need bring the real object that can’t bring into the classroom. We can use Pop-up Pictures to make teaching and learning process is more interest. 3. Popular with children. Pop-up Pictures will be liked the children, because these type of pictures has 3 dimensional scene see like real or alive than the picture in general. 4. This type of picture is more attractive for getting students’ attention. It is caused Pop-up Pictures has 3 dimensional scene that can provide the students’ imagination and describe what they seen from the pictures given.

2.5.5 The Disadvantages of using Pop-up Pictures

According to Glaister Holmes 2002: 3, there are two disadvantages of using Pop-up Pictures as follows. 1. This type of picture has low quality, if the pictures are made the low quality of paper. It means that the Pop-up Pictures are fragile, if they are not made of paper that the quality is good. So, to overcome this problem, the picture must be kept very gently. 2. These pictures need much money, because they use the best quality of paper and full colors. It is caused by the pictures can be attractive for getting students. So to overcome this problem, you can make Pop-up Pictures yourself.

2.6 Pictures as Media in Teaching Vocabulary

Pictures have an important part in the teaching learning process. It is caused by the pictures as media in teaching learning process can stimulate the students to develop their motivation during the lesson. Wright 1989: 2 states that picture is important to have as a wide range of resources as possible in the classroom so that the students can have a rich base and stimulus for this development and the resources must include pictures. In teaching vocabulary, pictures are helpful for the students to provide their imagination and describe what they have seen from the picture given. It could be improved the students’ vocabulary. By looking at the picture, they know vocabulary about those pictures, and it could be indicated that their vocabularies are improved. Wright 1989: 2 refers to the fact that they provide a sense of the context of the language and give a specific reference point or stimulus.

2.7 The procedure of Teaching Vocabulary by Using Pop-up Pictures

Pictures are very essential in English teaching. It can motivate and stimulate students. By using pictures, it is an enormous part in affecting students and it also gives information. According to Cross 1991: 11-13, the procedures of teaching vocabulary can be divided into three steps, they are namely: a Presentation. In this step, the teachers can be used various techniques which are recommended in the previous discussion. However, the teachers have to be careful in selecting the topics that they are used in teaching activity; b Practice. In the second step, the teacher gives exercises to the students in order to practice the subject items being learnt, making completion, matching, and words classification. This is several types of exercise that can be used by the teacher in this step; c Production. In this step the students are expected to apply the newly learn vocabulary. In this research, the researcher teaching activity used the following steps: 1. Preparing the materials of vocabulary by using Pop-up Pictures that were suitable with the level of the students and selecting the topic that was appropriate for the students. 2. Showing Pop-up Pictures to the students. 3. Asking the students some questions related to the Pop-up Pictures given. 4. Asking the students to mention ideas that are related with the Pop-up Pictures. If the students did not understand one of the Pop-up Pictures, the researcher helped them by giving some clues about habbits, appereances, and activities that related to the Pop-up Pictures. 5. Explaining what is descriptive text, nouns, verb, and adjective. 6. Giving the students exercises in order to practice the subject items. 7. Asking the students to answer the exercises.

2.8 Students’ Participation