Teachers’ Perceptions Toward the Use of Video Multimedia in Teaching

Education system in Indonesia is now heading towards a more advanced technology. Many schools are implementing video multimedia as a teaching method. As Stempleski (1998) notes that video-based lessons can highly stimulate and provide rich resources for language learning, thus, many private schools uses video multimedia in several lessons including English. Video multimedia can help teachers to motivate students in learning and offers a different mode of presentation. According to Mackey and Ho as cited in Choi and Johnson (2005), video learning is an effective way of providing motivation, keeping attention, and giving satisfaction to the learner. The present study investigated the teachers’ perception toward the use of video multimedia in teaching English. The participants consisted of three English teachers in one of private school in Salatiga who have taught English subject using video multimedia. The data was collected from semi-structured interview, in which all of the participants were individually interviewed about their perceptions towards the use of video in teaching. This study found that the participants had mentioned three positive responses towards video multimedia, for instance video as a tool to encourage students’ interaction, motivational tool, and to help students’ long term memory. At the end of the discussion there were obstacles that teacher faced. First is difficulties in finding a suitable video for teaching. The second is learning process and the availability of tool. Therefore, this finding suggested that school can also support the use of video in teahcing by providing necessary tools