THE TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION ON USING FLASHCARDS AS A MEDIA TO TEACH ENGLISH AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Abstract
In teaching English, there are various Media used by the teachers
especially for elementary school such as flashcard, picture of story book, songs,
and movies. Flashcard is an appropriate media for teaching elementary students to
learn about English beacuse it can ease the students to learn new language
especially English. This research aimed to know the teachers’ perception on using
flashcard as learning media at focusing on the strengths and the weaknesses of
using flashcard as learning media used by the teachers at elementary school.
Descriptive qualitative was used in this research. In this research, the researcher
used interview to get the data. Besides, this research was conducted at one of
elementary schools in Bantul, Yogyakarta. There were three teachers of
elementary school as the participants of this research. Besides, the findings
showed those six strengths and three weaknesses on using flashcard as learning
media in elementary school. This research found six strengths and three
weaknesses of using flashcard as a media in elementary school. Those strengths of
using flashcard as a media were developing students’ vocabulary, understanding
the material eaisly, creating fun learning, enhancing students’ creativity, having
pictures and colour, and becoming simple and effective media learning for
English. Besides, the participants also declared that there were three weaknesses
of using falshcard as learning media at elementary school were learning new
vocabulary, becoming too small flashcard size, and focus on sense visions only.