An English Subject Learning Media
2.2.4.1 Meaning of Learning Media: It has several definitions for learning media by different academicians.
Meaning 1 - A material uses as a medium for learning transfers from a teacher to a learner. (Chaiyong, 1989: 72)
Meaning 2 - A concern about a student learning that helps for more understanding, skill, and efficiency development
according to the learning objectives. (Suwat, 1994: 53)
Meaning 3 - Learning tool with a development that a learner can learn by him / her own as an important point.
(Department of Curriculum and Instruction Development, 2001: 213)
Meaning 4 - A material that contains a learning content or equipment that uses to teach a learner. (Kidanan
Malithong, 2002: 60)
2.2.4.2 A Value of Learning Media (Suwat, 1994: 53):
Value 1 - Learners that have different basic knowledge can understand a lesson equally by using a learning media.
Value 2 - A learning media solves some problems about place or direct experience.
Value 3 - A student gets a direct experience from a social environment.
Value 4 - A learning media lets a student has the same concept thinking.
Value 5 - A student has a correct and complete beginning imagination.
Value 6 - A student interests and would like to learn more in anything.
Value 7 - A learning media makes a motivation and is interested to a learner.
Value 8 - A learner has an experience from a concrete to an abstract.
Value 9 - A learning media decreases an amount of students that fail an examination.