Abstract
The purpose of this study was to analyse the media used in ELT textbook for beginners based on local characteristics of students by showing the data from analysed textbook, which is inappropriate for the the young learners in Indonesia, and this media made the teaching learning process ineffective and inefficient. Descriptive research design was applied in this study. The technique for collecting the data was quantitative approach. There were three (3) textbooks commonly used in primary level grade 4 in Indonesia. Those three were analyzed based on the local characteristics of students using demographic analysis. The result shows that only 5.6% of the media was related to local characteristics of students since the rest were to related general and foreign characteristic which reached 49% and 45.4% respectively. Therefore, the reason why the Englishlearners in Indonesia particularly on primary level grade 4 could not reach the standard of English Learning was because the media was 94.4% not related to the local characteristics of students.
Highlights
IntroductionThe media facilitates both teachers and students to achieve learning objectives well
Media is a tool used to facilitate for getting an achievement of a job
In English, beginners feel easier to understand English when the learning process is assisted by using appropriate media that is related to regional characteristics of learners such as using name of person, picture, tool and etc. it matches with the sociocultural theory in 1990s, the sociocultural theory as an account of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), it combined both linguistics theory and cognitive theory as being too mind/brain oriented and instead put the learner as an active students in learning with particular or local social context (Vanpatten & Benati, 2010:5)
Summary
The media facilitates both teachers and students to achieve learning objectives well. This is in line with Gillet (1973) states that media is all printed material, mechanical, electronic forms of communication. They may include anything object, person, situation, that is carrier of communication. The media, which is suitable with the regional or local characteristics of learners, is extremely important for smooth process of learning English and able to achieve educational goals
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