Teach Picture Research Class
Teach Picture Research Class
Teach Picture Research Class
By:
Himayatus Sholihah
C.9306121
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Himayatus Sholihah1
Drs. S. Budi Waskita, M.Pd2
ABSTRACT
2009. English Diploma Program, faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, Sebelas Maret
University Surakarta.
This final project is written based on the job training which has been done by the writer in
SDN Tugu Jebres No.120 Surakarta. The purpose of this final project is to describe the
process of using pictures in teaching English vocabulary and to explain the influences of
using pictures in teaching English vocabulary pictures to the fifth grade students of SDN
Tugu Jebres No.120 Surakarta.
The class activities consisted of four steps based on the lesson plan that was made before.
They are: Warming up that was done to make students interested in learning and to
introduce the materials. Presentation in which the writer presented the materials by using
pictures as visual media in order to explain the material clearly and easily to understand.
There are many activities in this part, such as Listening, Writing, Speaking and Reading.
Skill practice is used to know the students’ progress in the material that has been
explained before, and the assessment to evaluate the students’ understanding about the
lesson and the writer’s way of teaching.
The writer found out the positive effects of using pictures in teaching English vocabulary,
these are: the pictures could improve the students’ motivation, the pictures could attract
the students’ attention, the pictures help the students to memorize the vocabulary and the
pictures make the teaching and learning activities interesting. To improve the quality of
English teaching and learning in SDN Tugu Jebres no.120 Surakarta, it is suggested that
the English teacher had to create the suitable technique in improving the students’
motivation in learning English vocabulary. SDN Tugu Jebres No.12o surakarta should
also provide the teaching media that are useful to support the English teaching process.
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Mahasiswa Jurusan D III Bahasa Inggris dengan NIM C 9306121
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Dosen Pembimbing
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
many people all over the world. English is also a key to open doors to scientific
and technical knowledge which is needed for the economic, politic, social, culture,
tourism and many other fields. Another fact of the importance of English is a top
requirement of those seeking jobs, because many occupations require people who
have an English competence. From the facts above, it is obvious that everybody
introduced to the students’ thourgh learning its vocabulary because it is the most
important element that will become the basic competence in order to get other
In teaching English to children, the teacher should pay attention not only
on how the right implementation the techniques used but also on how these
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Every teacher wants to run the teaching learning process effectively. The
use of media is aimed to enable the students to get the lesson and give an
the questions since the students can relate the questions to the pictures given.
illustration of something and make it clear. Pictures are used to help students to
project entitled:
B. The Objectives
project are:
C. Benefits
The writer hopes that the final project result can give some benefits for
It is expected that the final project can give useful input to the
elementary students.
It is expected that the final project can give some advantages to the
elementary students.
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CHAPTER II
LITERATURE REVIEW
1. Teaching
implying role relationship between the teacher and learners, learners and
teaching learning process. This condition gives positive contributions for the
2. Learning
Nana sudjana says that Learning is process signed with the presence of
behavior and attitude, skill ability and other aspect of change that is studied by
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1. Internal Factor
a. Age
b. Motivation
c. Intelligent
The student’s intelligence shows whether the children are able to face
The different concept of the first language will make students difficult
e. Experience
2. External Factor
a. Language Environment
environment.
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b. The Teacher
1. Vocabulary
vocabulary has big influence in learning English. There are some definitions
of vocabularies. Penny Ur defines that vocabulary as the words that are taught
word which are made up of two or three words but express a single idea.
roles to support other language skills such as listening, speaking reading, and
1997:5)
states “No matter how well the students learns grammar , no matter how
vocabulary, we will be unable to use the structures and functions that we may
writing.
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Philips defines that young learners mean children from the first year formal
schooling (five or six years old) to eleven or twelve year age. ( Philips, 1996:5).
learners. Related to teaching and learning process, the students as the young
learners require the different treatment and situation that is more attractive,
various, and interesting. Jeremy Harmer states, more than anything else, children
are curious and this in itself is motivating. At the same time their span of attention
better through play or at least can be induced to go along with teaching that is
tempered by ‘fun’ activities. The students as young learners need more fun and
As Ytreberg says, most activities for young learners should include movement and
involve the senses. The teacher will need to have plenty of objects and pictures.
(Ytreberg, 1998:5)
From the explanation above, it can be concluded that young learners have
different characteristics from adult learners. Then, the teaching and learning
process needs special techniques suitable with the characteristics of the young
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learners. The Use of pictures is one of techniques that are appropriate with the
D. Picture
family photograph, calendars, wall chart, Slides, diagrams and maps are widely
French says that for helping students to understand the meaning of a word, a
In teaching and learning process, the role of using pictures as media has
English vocabulary and memorizing the meanings. Ur says that visual have an
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attention and help encourage them to focus on the subject in hand. (Ur, 1948: 30)
Wright states that pictures can play a key role in motivating students
contextualizing the language they are using, giving them a reference and helping
to discipline the activity. (Wright, 1989:2).Wright states some roles for pictures in
a. Pictures can motivate students and make him or her want to pay attention
subjectively.
controlled practice.
(Wright, 1989:17)
From the explanation above it can be seen that Pictures are useful to focus
the students’ attention to imagine on what the text says. Pictures are not
ambiguous; a picture should contain only what the word means. Using picture is
and easily. However, teaching using pictures have an important role in the
CHAPTER III
DISCUSSION
Jebres, Surakarta, side by side with SDN tegalkuniran No. 183. The school is
established in the land area of 1,5 hectares. This institution was built on May 20,
1970. The school so far has tried its level best to improve school activities.
Class 1 : 46 students
Class 2 : 48 students
Class 3 : 46 students
Class 4 : 42 students
Class 5 : 50 students
Class 6 : 41 students
teachers, three religion teachers, one English teacher, one sport teacher, one
mulok teacher, and one art teacher. The teachers are responsible for the teaching
and noble character. These are five Missions of SDN Tugu Jebres No.120
Surakarta:
5. Creating the students who ready to use in the academic and non-academic
activities
1. Scouting
The Scout activity at SDN Tugu Jebres plays a great role to actualize perfect
personality and mentality of the students. The scout activity is held on Friday,
at 15.00 pm up to 17.00 pm. This activity is taught for the students of class
three up to class six. Through Scout activities, the students train their skills
and actualize their creativities to prepare the real life in their own community.
2. Traditional Dance
This Traditional dance activity held based on the schedule of each class. The
aim of this activity is to preserve Indonesia culture. This activity is taught for
3. Karawitan
This activity is taught for the students of class three up to class five.
The Organization Structure of SDN Tugu Jebres NO.120 Surakarta
ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
HEAD MASTER
Drs. BUDI PARYONO, S.H.,M.H.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
LIBRARY UNIT
Drs. HENDRAT P.S.H.,M.Si
ADMINISTRATION
ST
1 GRADE MARIA DAREA, S. Th.
2ND GRADE RD
3 GRADE TH
4 GRADE TH
5 GRADE 6SGRADE
TEACHER TEACHER TEACHER TEACHER TEACHER TEACHER
SRI MARYATI SUPRAPTI, S. Pd. KRISTANTI SR DEWI IRIANINGSIH SRI SUPADMI SUNARLAN
ISLAMIC
CRISTIANTEACHER
TEACHER SPORT TEACHER ENGLISH TEACHER MULOK TEACHER ART TEACHER
BISRI DAREA,
MARIA M, S. Ag.S.Th SUWARSONO SITI RACHMAWATI SUTARDI, S.Sn.
SCHOOL GUARD
MARIA DAREA, S.Th
STUDENTS PARJO
CHATOLIC TEACHER
SOCIETY
RETNO W, S.Pd
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The explanation of the main duty
o Headmaster
o Administration
o Library Unit
§ Making a report about the thing and the activities in the library
o A Teacher Class
o A Sport Teacher
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o An English Teacher
o Mulok Teacher
o An Art Teacher
o School Guard
· Class Observation
The job training was done from January 30, 2009 up to February 28, 2009.
The teaching and learning process takes place in the fifth Grade students of SDN
Tugu Jebres. The classroom is situated between the kindergarten and the 6th grade
class. There are 50 students: 19 boys and 31 girls. This classroom has 25 tables,
50 chairs, one blackboard, one cupboard, chalk box, eraser, calendar, photo of the
president, photo of the vice president, clock, lamp, trashcan, bookshelves, desk,
Before the teaching and learning activities, the class leader always
leads them to pray first. English lesson is conducted twice in a week, each student
is demanded to have LKS which are provided by the school. The teacher has a
C. Material Preparation
time management. The writer arranged the materials that would be given in a
lesson plan. The lesson plan is made to plan the learning activity based on the
chapter in the LKS. It means that a lesson plan will help the teacher a lot in
conducting teaching learning process. The writer prepared colored pictures as the
media to teach the material clearly and easily to understand. In arranging the
lesson plan, the writer discussed it first with the English teacher. Then, the lesson
All of the preparation above was arranged into the lesson plan enclosed in
the appendices.
After making the lesson plan, the writer applied it in the class. The allotted
Before beginning the class, both the writer and the students prayed
together. This activity is always done before beginning the lesson. After that, the
This activity was done in the beginning of the class meeting to make the
students familiar to say greeting in English. Then, the writer started to explain the
lesson.
To start the lesson the writer asked some questions related to the material.
The writer prepared colored picture series related to the topic to help her
present the material and to make the students more interested to learn.
After explaining the material, the writer gave some exercises in order to
check whether the students have already understood the material given.
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1. Warming up
Warming up is the first step in the teaching process. In this stage, the
writer presented the new materials to the students. The writer did it by asking
the students some questions related to the material or the topic being
discussed, for example, if the topic was about transportation, the writer would
This activity was done to introduce the new topic to the students.
2. Presentation
In the second activity, the writer began to explain the materials to the
students. In learning English, there are four skills, which must be mastered.
They were listening, speaking, writing, and reading. Then, the writer taught it
to the fifth grade students. In this step, the teacher can use some media of
a. Teaching Listening
In teaching the listening skill by using pictures, the writer gave the
materials by asking the students to listen to her and then repeat after her.
For example, when the topic was transportation, the writer showed some
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pictures of transportation and mentioned their names, and then she asked
the students to repeat saying the names of objects after her. For examples:
Writer : Car
Students : Car
Writer : Motorcycle
Students : Motorcycle
Writer : Helicopter
Students : Helicopter
In this skill, the writer used pictures to make the students interested
in learning. After they finished and the students knew the names of all the
objects on the pictures, the writer showed the pictures again one by one
and asked the students to say the names of the thing to check whether they
b. Teaching Speaking
showed some picture of the transportation. Then, she asked some students
Students : Pedicab
Desi : Ship
This activity could make the students understand the objects and
c. Teaching Reading
language. In teaching the reading skills by using pictures, the writer read
the vocabulary twice to make it more clearly, then asked the students to
read it aloud together after the writer did. After that, she randomly pointed
d. Teaching Writing
explain how to write the correct letter. Then, the writer asked students to
write the vocabulary on the blackboard. They write the vocabularies based
What is this?
This is a bus
What is this?
This is pedicab
3. Skill Practice
Skill practice is the third step in teaching and learning activity. This
activity is used to know the students’ progress in the material that has been
explained before.
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o Students should write the answer on the board. Then they must pronounce
it well.
4. Assessment
out to know how far the students understand the material. It is also used to
learning.
explained. If the time was not enough, the writer asked the students to do it
pictures at the fifth grade students of SDN Tugu Jebres, the writer will
explain the influences of using pictures in the teaching learning process. They
are as follows:
students’ motivation to learn English is getting better when they are shown the
pictures. The students are very enthusiastic to join the lesson, including
answering the question and responding the teacher’ explanation. Then, high
Pictures are useful to focus the attention of the students on what the
text says by helping him to imagine it. When using pictures, the students
depend on the pictures and neglect to understand the context. When the
students are attracted to the pictures, they will pay attention more to learning
because they attract students’ attention and help encourage them to focus on
It is important to make sure that the pictures are not ambiguous; they
should contain only what the word means. Using picture is an effort to help
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learning activity, as the students do not get bored in having English class. It
CHAPTER IV
A. Conclusions
pictures at the fifth grade students of SDN Tugu Jebres No.120, there are
some conclusions that could be drawn from this final project. Those are:
A. Warming Up
In this step, the writer greeted the students first. Then, she introduced
new materials to the students by asking some questions related to the material
that will be explained. Besides that, the writer gave a short explanation about
the material. The writer also used pictures to attract students’ attention.
B. Presentation
The second step is presentation. In this step, the writer presented the
materials by using pictures in order to explain the material clearly and easily
to understand. This activity has done by the writer because the children
usually get bored in listening to the teacher’s explanation. Pictures could help
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C. Skill Practice
Skill practice is the third step, it was used to know the students’
progress in the material that had been explained before. In this step, the writer
D. Assessment
did some evaluation by giving some exercises and homework to the students.
The exercise given is based on the materials in the LKS. These assessments
are also used to evaluate the writer’s way of teaching, whether it is effective
or not.
English vocabulary especially to the fifth grade students of SDN Tugu Jebres
No.120 Surakarta.
B. Suggestions
writer would like to give some suggestions directed to the English teacher,
1. English teacher
It would be better if SDN Tugu Jebres No. 120, Surakarta provides the
teaching media that are useful to support the English teaching process so that
3. Other researcher
This study is just one effort in improving the students’ vocabulary, the
writer hopes that this final project will be useful to conduct the other research
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