The Students’ Perception of The Media Used By Teacher in Teaching English

Abstract

Media occupies an important position as one component of the learning process without media, communication will not occur and the learning process as a communication process also will not be able to take place optimally. In fact, what happens in learning is often a process running ineffectively. A lot of times, energy waste while learning goals cannot be achieved even happen noises in communication between teacher and students. This research focused on describing the instructional media that was used by the English teachers in teaching English and the students‟ perception of the media used by the English teachers in teaching learning process at the eighth grade students in junior high school. Based on the findings of the research, the researcher would make conclusion by showing the result of the observation checklist and interview towards the students. 1. The kinds of media that the teacher used when teaching English were whiteboard, English book, dictionary, laptop, LCD projector, and speaker. 2. According to the students‟ interview, most of the students gave positive perception toward the media used by English teacher in teaching and learning process, they were being happy, being more active, being more excited/spirit in learning English, they were easier to understand the materials, they can repair their pronunciation, vocabulary, find new ideas, express their opinion and they can practice it in daily life. Whereas there were also some students gave negative perception toward the media used by English teacher in teaching and learning process that they cannot be enthusiastic/spirit to learn English, pronounce the words correctly, findnew ideas and express their opinion because they were lazy, being wary and afraid of being wrong in learning English.