Multimedia Running Text Educational Technology

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

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