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items on the basis of higher-order relationships, the students are asked to reorder or rearrange what they have been memorized. The last is elaboration. Elaboration
is linking items in an image or sentence. In the design of the vocabulary game, pictures are mostly used to develop children understanding about the vocabulary.
They do trial-and-error activities by playing the game repeatedly also.
3. Media or Teaching Aids
Since this study is about designing an educative game for children, media is needed to accommodate the students to get connected to the game itself.
Therefore, the writer must know kinds of media in order to give the most appropriate media or teaching aids. It includes the benefits of media and the types.
a. The Benefits of Using Media
According to Namle 2013, media refers to all electronic or digital means and print or artistic visuals used to transmit messages the examples are
newspapers, magazines, and billboards, radio, television, videocassettes, video games, and computer games. It means that this media cannot be separated from
the learning process because this is the tools to hold the learning activities. Gagne and Briggs 1975 implicitly define that educative media consists of tools that
physically are used to deliver the content of the materials which contains of: book, tape recorder, cassette, camera video, video recorder, film, slide frame picture,
photos, picture, graphic, television, and computer. Concluding those two experts‟
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from the teacher to the students. It activates students‟ interests by using visual or auditory imagery. This aim is to give stimulus for the students to learn better
using that physical electronics. Another benefit from using media is by improving
the player‟s moods, promote the relaxation and ward off anxiety. Media especially computer is used to
give the solution when students are bored with the usual activities in the classroom. Therefore, it can increase the moods of the students at that time. They
are like having something to “play with” if there are computers around them. The freedom of using media in the classroom activity for every student leads the
students to be independent learners by practicing something. Since media used is wide, media plays essential roles for language
teaching. Soeparno 1988 stated that language teaching media is a tool to communicate message or linguistic information in the cognitive, affective,
psychomotor field from information sender to information receiver. Language teaching media is aimed to make the information can be understood by the
receiver.
b. Types of Media or Teaching Aids
