Short Card as Teaching and Learning Media

In order to make a deep understanding about the terms “teaching” let’s analyze, Jaralimek in Sarifah view about it. He defines “teaching as process in which human being have been engaged from the beginning of their tenure on earth, perhaps many millions of years ago. According to him, “the basic from of the teaching is instruction”[1]
We know that to make easily understood the material in learning process, a teacher should used learning media. There are much learning media can used in learning as audio media, visual media and audiovisual or video media. Short card is a kind of Visual media.
As states above, the basic from of teaching is instruction. To confirm the idea, Gerlach in Rosdiana explains:


“It further in relation with teaching strategy, in which he used term instructional strategies. According to him traditional term of instruction strategies is method. Then he explains the two terms in two definitions, strategy is the teacher approach to using information, selecting resources, and defining the role of the students. He defines the method as a systematic plan for presentation information.”[2]


Gerlach in Rosdiana defines:

“Learning as a change in behavior following instruction. It involves the total human being, in which consist of their types of learning:
1). Cognitive learning
Cognitive learning deals with that a learner should understand or comprehend. For example, students learn know to distinguish one color form another, the name part of the speech, and many other similar.
2). Psychomotor learning
Psychomotor learning concerned with how a learner moves or controls the body. For example: students learn to color with crayons, to cut with scissors, to type, and perform many other similar tasks.
3). Affective learning
Affective learning concerned with how a learner feels or shows a change in attitudes or values, actually, effective learning is evidence of attitudes, for example: learner learn to agree, to cooperate, to be polite.”[3]

In teaching and learning process, a teacher can use some kinds of learning media to reach the Lesson aim which wish the reached by the teacher. One of the learning media is short card media.
Short card is learning media used in submitting of items in the form of small card that consist a word. The cards will be compiled by student to make a sentence.
By using the short card media is expected can facilitate the student comprehends the English Lesson specially tenses by easily so that the teaching learning always uses it in learning process in class.



[1] Sarifah Arafah, Using English Carton Film as a Teaching Device to Enrich Students of English Departemen Of FBS, UNM, 2001), p. 9
[2] Rosdianah, Improvinig The Vocabulary Mastery of the Sixth Grade Students of SD Inpres Tamalanrea V Macassar Through Picture Stories, (UNM, FBS, 2002), p. 8
[3] I b i d, p. 9