EFL TEACHERS' PERCEPTION TOWARD MEDIA USAGE IN TEACHING ENGLISH

Research in this thesis is against the backdrop of demand in mastering English. EFL teacher becomes one of main important part in teaching learning English to handle a certain role to maximal the students’ achievement. The students’ achievement here means not only someone that has a lot of knowledge and high value but also someone that can give positive contribution for other people. Because of that, the teachers have big responsibility to facilitate students in learning. One of the facilitation of teaching learning that has to be prepared by teachers is media. According to some researchs, the existence of media in teaching learning activity is able to give positive impact for teacher or students. The outlook of teacher, the experience of teacher and the evaluation of teacher are important in teaching learning English. This study aims to investigate the teachers’ perceptions of ELT media. This study is classified into three main dimensions of perception proposed by Vernon (1987) namely understanding, outlook and action. By conducting a survey study, the researcher collected, analyzed, elaborated and eventually drew conclusion dealing with the teachers’ perceptions of ELT media. The main data of this study were collected with a interview and a questionnaire, which was distributed to 29 English teachers in the city of Tulungagung. The data from the questionnaire were elaborated by applying Riduan’s (2012) formula, so the finding of each of perception dimensions can be classified into certain categories whether very positive, positive, negative or very negative. These categories then led the researcher in drawing the conclusion to answer the question of this particular study. The findings showed that Media is able to be benefit for both teachers and students, be applicable for every class. To select criteria of Media is based on Media Mastery or flexibility due to different reference and less facility. Besides that, The teachers have positive responses towards the two of the dimensions, understanding and view. The teachers however, do not show positive responses toward the action. However, in general, the English teachers’ perceptions of ELT media in this study were categorized as a good perception. In other words, all the teachers have a positive perception of ELT media