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a. Definition of Flash Cards
Charles 2009: 123 states that flash cards are especially useful for memorizing vocabulary words and their definition, dates in history and their
significance, and picture artwork or other items that you will be responsible for identifying. The flash cards can be used at the beginning of a unit to present and
practice new vocabularies. Mukalel 2004: 147 states that flash cards are small cards, big enough to carry on them, such as part of sentences, phrases, single
words, minimal pairs and so on. Besides, the flash cards also have some advantages in the learning process.
According to Micheloud 2009, there are some advantages of using the flash cards in the classroom, namely, 1 the system is effective to use for
distinguishing tenses, 2 the cards are easy to be prepared everyone can make flash cards by drawing any illustration according to the purpose of teaching, 3
the cards are easy to be carried around as they are only a stack of card, it is easy to be carried, and 4 the cards are easy to be used cards are only transferred of
flash from back to front. Generally, the flash cards are study tools, pieces of paper that are used as a
learning aid. The purpose of using flash cards is for memorizing the words. Flash cards are useful for teaching grammar, especially at the meaningful
communicative step. A teacher can prepare the flash cards easily and store them easily in well grouped packs. The flash cards do not need a specific size. The flash
cards can be displayed casually and easily by the teacher or the students in group works.
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b. Possible Case of the Implementation of Flash Cards
By looking at the example of the implementation of teaching irregular verbs throughout flash cards, the researcher finds a possible case of the
implementation of flash cards in the teaching process bas ed on Dewi’s journal
2011. A teacher can explain the lesson by showing the cards which contains picture or written words toward the students. The cards have been arranged for
the students. While showing the cards, the teacher asks the students to read the words loudly. It is
aimed at knowing the students’ pronunciation. If the students make some mistakes, the teacher gives the example of pronouncing the words
correctly. The teacher is not going to change the flash cards before the students pronounced it correctly. Then, he asks them one by one to pronounce. They have
also to change the irregular verbs of the words from the first form into the second form and the third form. After finishing that activity, the teacher gives an
examination in order to evaluate the teaching and learning process.
c. Flash Cards in Teaching Irregular Verbs
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