| dc.description.abstract | This research aims to find out pre-service teachers’ perception on the types of
authentic materials and the reason of using them. It also aims to find out the
benefits and challenges of using authentic materials. This research was conducted
in EED UMY and used descriptive qualitative research design. This research has
three major findings. The first finding was regarding the types of authentic
materials that were used by pre-service teachers of EED UMY and the reason
using them. They were audio, visual, audiovisual, and printed materials. The types
of authentic material found in this research of audio consisted of song. The types
of authentic material found in this research of visual consisted of pictures from
internet, photo, drawing, and poster. The types of audiovisual consisted of video.
Then, the types of authentic material found in this research of printed material
consisted of newspaper, story, magazine, letter, recipes, and invitation card. The
second finding was about the benefits of authentic material that perceived by preservice
teachers of EED UMY. They were increasing students’ overall language
proficiency, giving cultural information, motivating students in learning, and
providing real world material to the students. The third finding was about the
challenges of using authentic materials faced by pre-service teachers of EED
UMY. They were needed more preparation, high level of grammar, using difficult
vocabularies, and containing inappropriate content. | en_US |
