Chapter 1 introduction

G. Instructional Media
1. Definition of Instructional Media 
According to Heinich et al, (2002:09) A medium (plural, media) is 
a channel of communication. Derived from the Latin word meaning 
“between”, the term refers to anything that carries information between a 
source and a receiver.
Arsyad, (2006:04) state that instructional media is all forms 
intermediaries used by human to communicate or spread the ideas, the 
concepts, or opinion so the ideas, concepts or opinion arrive to intended
recipient.
According to Asnawir and Usman (2002:11) instructional media is 
something that is to transmit messages and can stimulate the thoughts, 
feelings and audience (students) desires, so can encourage the learning 
process themselves.
From the definition above, it can be concluded that media can be 
used as facilities to deliver information from sender to receiver, in this 
point teacher and students. The use of media is significant as it would help 
the students in understanding and learning the lesson. For instance, if 
teachers want to explain about animal, media like dolls, pictures, and so on 
might help the students in visualizing the shape of those animals easily.

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Media is one of the teaching components whish should be involved 
in teaching learning process. It is strongly suggested that the teacher 
makes teaching medium to help the delivering material in the classroom. 
According to Nilawati (2007:18),
“Selecting appropriate media of teaching is not only 
using teaching media randomly without planning first 
but also analyzing the level of the students the 
appropriates of material which will be taught by the 
teacher. Students in learning language must represent 
the needs of the students, their capabilities their 
special” 
By using media during the teaching learning process, hopefully the 
teacher will be able to motivate the students to learn and understand to the 
material presents. Media would help to make the condition for the learners 
to identify or describe someone or something. 
In addition, media have a purpose that is to capture and sustain the 
students' interest and attention and they can give more impression 
conveying and explaining information, messages, ideas, facilitate 
communication etc. However, it will enrich the foreign language teaching 
if the teacher notices basic things as follow: media should be inexpensive, 
media should be appropriate with the instructional, media should be 
appropriate with the material will be taught, media should be appropriate 
with the learners' characteristics, and media should interest the students' 
attention. 

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