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creative in delivering teaching material to the children since it is given in many different ways. Media also enable the teacher to use creative and innovative ways
in helping the students to reach learning objectives. Whereas for the students, media are helpful in creating a livelier and fun class since the activity does not
only focus on the teacher’s preach or explanation. The students are also stimulated to think analytically since they get the knowledge not directly from the
teacher. Media have a big chance in facilitating the students’ different learning styles since they appear in many different forms.
Instructional media can be classified based on the sensory channels that included, namely audio, visual and audio-visual media Ohm, 2010 Audio media
are those instructional media which involve the sense of hearing. The researcher categorizes them into audio recording, drama, news report and song. Visual media
are those media which involve the sense of sight and cover picture, flashcard and chart. While audio-visual are those media which involve both sense of hearing
and sight. In this particular study, the researcher divides them into three, video, film and TV program. Those media are helpful for English teacher since they are
applicable in English language teaching. The availability of media becomes meaningless if they cannot be well
applied by the teacher. The teacher in fact, will be able to use media if they have a good perception of the media. Perception, according to Gibson 1985 is a
cognitive process that individual uses to interpret and understand the world around himher. In order to be able to interpret and understand, he she has to
translate the signal that he she receives through some process namely, observing, PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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depend on how they process every single thing about media through their senses. There are three aspects that can guide us in analysing teachers’ perceptions, they
are understanding, view and action Vernon, 1987 It means, teachers’ perceptions of instructional media can be seen through how he she understand the media, how
he she view the media and also how his her action toward the media. Thus, to answer the problem formulation of this study, the researcher uses
some points as the guidelines. The researcher gathers the data in order to answer the question about teachers’ perceptions of ELT media by looking deeper to the
teachers’ understanding, view and action toward media. The concept of media, their benefit, and classification will help the researcher to examine the teachers’
understanding of media. Knowing the teachers’ views about media is also useful in this study. It can be gathered by asking about how the teacher personally sees
the media, what kind of impact do the media bring for both the teacher and the students. The researcher also investigates the use of ELT media by asking the
frequency of media used in the classroom, whether to assist the teachers in improving the students’ listening, speaking, reading or writing skills.
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