TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION: THE USE OF FLASHCARD AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE VOCABULARY MASTERY OF HEARING IMPAIRED STUDENTS IN SMPLB N 1 BANTUL YOGYAKARTA
Abstract
Hearing impaired students are special students because they need special treatment.
Then, in Indonesia teacher of hearing impaired students teach by using curriculum
that the government design for hearing impaired students as a reference. This
curriculum describe that hearing impaired students have to take similar subject with
normal students like science, mathematics, social and English language. In learning
English, hearing impaired students is important to have good vocabulary knowledge
because they can get difficulties when they do not have it. There are many media that
the teachers of hearing impaired used to teach new vocabulary such as flashcard,
picture, realia and logiko. Then, flashcard is one of media that appropriate for hearing
impaired students to learn new vocabulary. This research aimed to know teachers’
perception about the use of flashcard and the effect of using flashcard on the
vocabulary mastery of hearing impaired students in SMPLB N 1 Bantul Yogyakarta.
Descriptive qualitative was used in this research. In this research, the researcher used
interview to get the data. There are two teachers of hearing impaired students as
participants. The first finding showed that there were three important aspects at using
flashcard in the classroom of hearing impaired students such as the times of using
flashcard, function of using flashcard and appropriate activities that teachers use to
teach new vocabulary by using flashcard. Second finding showed that flashcard can
help hearing impaired students in learning new vocabulary and flashcard also can
improve vocabulary mastery of hearing impaired students. Other findings were about
the use of other media such as picture, realia and logiko. The teacher also explained
some challenges at using flashcard.