THE USE OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR YOUNG LEARNERS BY THE TEACHER (Case Study in MI MIFTAHUL ISLAMIYAH Jimbaran Kayen Pati in 2017/2018 Academic Year)

In teaching English to elementary school, teachers deal that young learners are different from adult learners‘. Young learner tend to be active and enjoy with attractive learning proses in a class. The teachers could use instructional media to make their students have interest in teaching and learning process. The importance of using media is considered to enhance the quality of learning. Using appropriate media is needed to help and involve the students actively to acquire new concepts, ideas, skills and language competence. The teachers should be able to use instructional media to create effective learning and increase the students‟ motivation to learn. In teaching, the teachers may implement different instructional media and it depends on the learning materials. The teachers implement instructional media appropriate and related with the learning materials in order to make the learning material can be received well by the students and make easier the students‟ understanding in learning process. The objective of this research: (i) to find out kinds of instructional media used by the teacher (ii) to describe the use of instructional media in teaching English for young learner by the teacher (iii) to find out the problems are faced by the teacher in using instructional media in teaching English for young learner. This is a descriptive qualitative research. The data of this research is instructional media used by English teachers. The data source is the teacher in teaching English at the fifth grade of MI Miftahul Islamiyah Jimbaran Kayen Pati. It is conducted in two meetings. To analyze the data, the writer transcribes to identify kinds of instructional media and the problems in selecting and using instructional media, describe the implementation of instructional media, and make the conclusion. The result of this research shows that kinds of instructional media that is are used by the teachers are real object, book, students’ worksheet, picture, and board. In the implementation of instructional media, the teacher used printed text or worksheet and real object as the apperception. In whilst teaching, board and printed text or pictures were as media to explain the material and give assignment. At the end of this research, the writer suggests that the teacher should need more time in preparing instructional media before teaching in order to have instructional media more optimal and effective. The teacher is expected to use creatively instructional media in order to build meaningful teaching and learning process