EFFECTS OF AUDIO-VISUAL LEARNING TOWARD THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY OF 4th GRADE STUDENTS OF MI WALISONGO KALANGAN IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2010/2011 (original) (raw)

Learning is the process of communication and interaction between the teacher and the students in education, where the students accept, acquire, understand, response and develop the informations, science, knowledge and study material from the teacher through some activities. It is related with teaching and learning process which done in the classroom, and involve the profesionality of teacher to reach certain purpose of education. In recently years, telecommunications and technology is growing rapidly. It is marked by digital era, especially electronic and multimedia. The learning process also demand the existence of adjustment in education institution in using a method of process teaching and learning, which using media of electronic and multimedia in order to reach optimal and effective learning for students. Institution level such as elementary school also need the tools and infrastructure of telecommunication and technology to increase.the quality of institution and to solve the challenges which happened. There are many teaching and learning methods, and can be effective enough done by the teacher to teach the students to understand about study material. There are Audio-visual Method, Audio-lingual Method (ALM), Direct Oral Method, Indirect Grammar Method, Natural Method, Communicative Method, Grammar Translation Method (GTM), Situational Language Teaching (SLT), Cognitive Code Learning (CCL), Total Pysicical Response (TPR), Silent Way, Suggestopedia, Communicative Language Learning (CLL) etc. Audio-visual method is one of methods which can be used in the classroom to teach the students of elementary school. It uses both visual and audio media, and permit the introduction of study materials. The improved access and avaibility of electronic and multimedia technology has enable more students to participate in the classroom when learning process. Audio-visual makes teaching and learning effective and useful. It is the best dissemination of knowledge and information, it also play an even more important role in classrooms. Teacher may introduce and demonstrate in many media of audio-visual such as television, video, movie, projector, computer in the classroom. It will enrich their understanding and vocabulary about English and will build a creative environment in the elementary class and create a more inviting atmosphere. Based on the explanation above, the writer is interested in finding out the effects of learning method towarh the English vocabulary achievement through audio (sense of hearing) and visual (sense of seeing and watching).