Learning media Review on Related Theories

12 the teaching reading techniques, teachers should be pay attention to several elements. The first one is focused on the reading process. To accomplish this goal, instructors focus on the process of reading rather than on its product. When students read the text types the reading process takes an important role especially for identifying the type of the text. Second, the instruction in reading strategies is not an add-on, but rather an integral part of the use of reading activities in the language classroom. The challenges emerge here because teacher should be able to help their students become effective readers by teaching them how to use strategies before, during, and after reading. Third, reading activity for students should be able to stimulate their communicative competence through classroom and homework reading activities. This step becomes the next challenge for teachers because they have to resemble or be real-life reading tasks that involve meaningful communication using English text types. Learning English text types is not only talk about reading but also producing written text related to English text types. According to Verner 2009 there are several techniques that teachers may use for teaching English text types. The first one is brainstorming. The object in brainstorming is to compile as large a list as possible of potential examples for a given topic. The challenge for teacher is how to stimulate their idea by providing several examples of English text types. 13 Then, the next step is free writing. Free writing is an individual activity for getting thoughts from students’ head on to paper. How to explain the concept of stream of consciousness and tell students that free writing is easy become the challenge that teachers must be face. Next, the important part is journalistic questions. Teachers should be able to explain journalistic questions by reviewing the question words: who, what, where, when, why and how. The last one is cluster mapping. It shows relationships between ideas. English teachers must be able to facilitate the students in this part because cluster mapping does not only talking about teacher’s teaching abilities to explain about this concept but also the students must also be able to identify whether their written products are related and well-structured or not. Teacher must have at least examples of English text types which are clear and well-structured. To make the learning media the researcher needs these theories to make sure that the media contains those techniques. They are also required to make sure that the learning media is proper enough to be a source of knowledge. The use of Text Types Board for both teaching reading and writing techniques is as a first source of knowledge and as a reference for students. Text Types Board as a first source of knowledge means when students need a source of knowledge for the first time, Text Types Board can facilitate them in learning types of text in English. Text Types Board as a reference of learning means this learning media can also stimulate their independent learning. They can use Text Types Board as a validator for their work while reading or writing about text types in English. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI