TEACHING ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS USING PICTURES TO THE FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SDN BULUKANTIL NO. 150 SURAKARTA

This final project is written based on the job training as teacher at SDN Bulukantil No.150, Surakarta. The purposes of this final project are to describe the process of using pictures in teaching English and to explain the problems of using pictures in the teaching English to The Fourth Grade Students of SDN Bulukantil No.150, Surakarta. The writer taught materials using pictures to the fourth grade students like giving explanation about the materials, giving exercises for students, making games like missing word. The writer collected data and information by making observation and getting involved in each job or activity. The class activities consisted of four steps based on the lesson plan that was made before. They were: Warming up that was done to make students interested in learning and introducing the materials. The presentation by the writer used pictures as visual media in order to explain the material clearly and easily to understand. There were many activities in this part, such as Listening, Writing, Speaking and Reading. Skill practice was used to know the students’ progress in the material that had 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: the pictures can improve the students’ motivation, attract the students’ attention, 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 Bulukantil no.150 Surakarta, it is suggested that the English teacher has to create the suitable technique in improving the students’ motivation in learning English vocabulary. SDN Bulukantil No.150 Surakarta should also provide the teaching media that are useful to support the English teaching process. Hopefully, this final project report can be a reference for the Teacher of SDN Bulukantil No.150 to improve their performance and the English Diploma students to conduct the other research on the similar problems