The Use of Flashcard to stimulate students' participation in english speaking activities at MTsNU Sidoarjo

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Khuril Ain, Deyisna Nuzila Ismi (2021) The Use of Flashcard to stimulate students' participation in english speaking activities at MTsNU Sidoarjo. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the reasons why the English teachers’ prefer to use flashcard as a media while teaching English. The focus of this research is the reasons why do the teachers use flashcards as a media and what are the challenges faced by the teachers. This study provided questionnaire checklist and interview guideline with the English teachers from MTsNU Sidoarjo. The result of this study indicate some of reasons by the teachers’ in using flashcard as a media and what are the challenges faced by the teachers when using flashcard as a media in teaching. The results of this study found that the media was very effective and could stimulate students’ participation in English speaking activities. Even by using these media, the teachers feel easier to apply media flashcard in learning because they can be used anytime and anywhere. This findings highlights that there are several reasons why teachers prefer to use flashcards as a media to stimulate students participation in English speaking activities, besides that there are several challenges faced by the teachers. In this study, it was found that the challenges often faced by the teachers when applying the media were students’ lack of vocabulary mastery, in preparing the media they had to be quick and adjust the images with the material to be delivered in class, also the situation in the classroom was crowded because the students were very enthusiastic.