KINDS OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA FOR TEACHING ENGLISH

Dwi Setiyawan  
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Learning and teaching a foreign language needs a lot of patience, energy, time, creativity and competence. The success of the teaching and learning of foreign language skills including English is determined by a number of factors both linguistic and non linguistic such as the students, the teacher, the methods, material and media or aids used.

English teaching media are very important to help students acquire new concepts of, the skills and language competences. They are many kinds of media which can be used by the teachers in the teaching learning process, but the teacher should be selective when choosing. This paper discusses about Kinds of Instructional Media For Teaching English. This case followed their picture, definition and how to use in English teaching. 

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