The Use of the Media in Teaching English

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present instructional media used in teaching English. Teaching media are commonly used by English teacher in teaching English in schools of Indonesia. The teacher uses media to encourage students’ motivation because it is one of important parts of success in learning process. Moreover, use of teaching media helps the teacher to connect learners with events that are culturally relevant in order to achieve the teaching and learning goal.

Based on the data, the researcher found that the teacher utilized mobile phone, laptop, internet, digital projector, Microsoft Power Point, book, poster, real object, speaker active, video and Youtube as the teaching media used in teaching English. Additionally, the researcher also found that there were several strengths of using teaching media in teaching English. Those strengths were the media could make students active in in learning process and the students were focus to understand the material. However, the researcher also found that the weakness of using teaching media in teaching English. The weakness was it was difficult for the teacher to get students’ attention.