In
general, media refer to various means of communication. For example,
television, radio, and newspaper are different types of media. According to
Advance Learners’ Dictionary, media is the means of communicating with large
numbers of people.
Media play an important role in a
teaching and learning process. Media are used
to fasilitate the teacher and students to reach the
goals of study. Media
help the students to motivate them in the teaching and learning process.
There are a lot of definitions of media
that have been given by the experts. Wilkison states that
“Media are every
tool and material that can
be used in transferring information in a teaching and learning process.” From that definition, we can conclude that media
are tools and materials
that are used by teachers in teaching and
learning process to support in delivering the material to the students, so they
can understand what the teacher has
explain to them.
To select the appropriate media, the
teacher must take note of the characteristics of the students which directly relate to the
learning process such as verbal abilities, visual and audio perception skill,
experience, intelligence, motivation, personality and social skills. Because of the
important role of media, teacher must be able to choose appropriate media and
use a good method in
teaching and learning process in order to get satisfactory results.
Media will be very useful if they are
used carefully and creatively by the teachers, and then, they are used
effectively to support the presentation of the lesson during the teaching and
learning process.
Media that you can use in teaching and learning process such as video, picture, song, nursery rhyme, power point presentation, movie, poem, game, etc.
