AUTHENTIC MATERIAL USED BY PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS AT EED OF UMY IN THEIR TEACHING PRACTICE

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Abstract
Teaching materials are key components which should importantly be considered
in a language program. Teaching materials are divided into authentic materials
and created materials. This research was aimed to investigate what kind of
authentic materials which commonly used by pre-service teachers at EED of
UMY in their teaching practice. Furthermore, the significances and the
disadvantages of using authentic materials were also explored by the researcher.
The researcher used descriptive qualitative design to achieve the purpose of the
research. The participants of this research were four pre-service teachers batch
2013 of EED of UMY. The researcher chose in-depth interview to elicit
information from the participants. Finally, the researcher found the kinds of
authentic material, which were divided into two parts, printed and auditory that
were mostly used by pre-service teachers in EED UMY. The research found that
authentic materials have significances those are; motivating the students,
interesting, easily found, multifunction, and improving teacher’s creativity.
Otherwise, the disadvantages of using authentic materials for students and
teachers were also presented. Difficult language, out-dated easily, and difficult to
determine the appropriate one were the disadvantages of using authentic material
in language teaching.

Keywords: authentic materials, kind of authentic materials, significances of used

authentic materials, and disadvantages of used authentic materials.