Utilizing Multimedia in Teaching Vocabulary among Grade 1 Pupils

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Multimedia is a tool to increase the motivation of children. The teacher should create various teaching techniques of vocabulary but if the multimedia that is used is not appropriate, it may cause some problems to the students such as boredom and laziness in the learning process. The passive teaching-learning makes the students lack interaction, and the students are not interested in the material. From the problem above the researchers try to give solutions to identify the most appropriate adjustment and technique that would address to every pupil in teaching vocabulary.

METHODS

The study utilized the descriptive research design with fifty (50) Grade 1 teachers from Taysan District, as the respondents and used a researchers-made questionnaire to gather the needed information on the use of multimedia in teaching vocabulary.

RESULTS

Teachers utilized the multimedia to a great extent in terms of entertainment such as dance videos; powerpoint presentations and animations; and sound effects or audio sounds. This means teachers can help pupils to organize their ideas and thoughts or any kind of information in an orderly and attractive way as it is gaining entrance in the English teaching field. Videos and powerpoint presentations allow them to introduce any aspect of real life into the language learning environment, contextualizing the learning process. This makes a very comprehensible tool for teaching vocabulary. Pupils often met illiteracy in using multimedia. This implies that pupils are not knowledgeable enough in operating a computer especially in utilizing PowerPoint presentations and open application videos. There's a need for technical assistance to educate them and to have a smooth flow discussion inside the classroom. The proposed learning plan, when applied by teachers, will help develop pupils' vocabulary through varied multimedia activities and become educated in the utilization of different multimedia features.

DISCUSSIONS

Vocabulary activities help the pupils learn new words through multiple multimedia features like PowerPoint and video presentations. Pupils enjoy being word detectives and readers as they find and learn new vocabulary in the computer through pictures with animations and words in graphical presentations. Different multimedia techniques are designed to encourage the pupils not only to learn vocabulary words for school, but to seek meaning in words that they encounter in everyday interactions with books, TV, computers, and other people.