can provide richer simulation and information. Moreover, the demonstration of teacher can live the classroom atmosphere.
Teachers can combine the media to maximalize the teaching performance. The combination of media is literally called multimedia. The media can be still
graphics and photographs, sound, motion video, animation, andor text items combined in a product for communicating the information in multiple ways Doering:
2010. The similar statement according to Newby 2011 that multimedia are simulator which uses different media format including audio, video, text and real
objects. Multimedia give impuls of exposuring the knowledge. There are some current and future impacts of multimedia in education according to Doering
2010:171. They are to help the educators to enhance classroom learning, to increase motivation, to develop creative and critical thinking skills, and to improve skills.
Alhough we know that media are essential to teach well, the teachers have a necessity in creatively and properly utilizing multimedia. The process of determining
which electronic tools and which are the most appropriate methods for implementing them should be prepared well. The greatest challenge faced by teachers today is
technology integration in both using and producing multimedia.
a. Multimedia Running Text
One of the multimedia which is applicable in teaching reading fluency is running text multimedia role as auditory modeling. Students need running text
multimedia which is appropriate for them to improve their skill. In giving an example of reading, providing the suitable and effective multimedia with the
running text will greatly assist teachers in conducting the learning process in the classroom. Running text multimedia which is easy to be used will greatly assist
teachers in presenting the materials to students. Ho 2004 in Huckabae 2013 said that multimedia running text are rolling
text with background sounds to stimulate the struggle readers. The multimedia require the readers to be able to smoothly read in front of their friends. Running
text multimedia combine text, audio and few visuals. The texts are drawn from the materials in the text book or other sources related to the taught text genre. The
audio is synthesized by using the current technology called TTS text to speech application which is able to convert the text into audio as the output. Moreover,
visuals are used to make the multimedia more interesting but not to distruct the concentration of the students in reading fluency activity. Running text multimedia
can is familiarly called minilyric of the song. MiniLyrics is application lyrics software of language teaching. It includes
one way to develop competence aspects Widawati : 2012. It displays lyrics automatically; it comes in the form of a plugin for media player, with support for
the most popular ones. They can be applicated in several computer programs such as Winamp, Window Media Player, iTunes etc.
Furthermore, running text multimedia are helpful in teaching reading of news item. They are used in the Turkeys colleges for enhacing reading fluency of
news item Basaran : 1999.
4. The characteristics of young learners
