REDESIGNING INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA IN TEACHING ENGLISH OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS’ STUDENTS: DEVELOPING MINIMUM CURRICULUM

摘要

Abstract: This qualitative research reports the result of a study on redesigning instructional media in teachingudEnglish. It focuses mainly on what, how and why teachers redesign instructional media in teaching English ofudelementary school’students. Techniques of collecting data include observation non participation, and interviewudthen collected data are analyzed by using qualitative descriptive analysis by transcribing;analyzing; reducing;udcategorizing; interpreting the data. Based on research findings, redesigning curriculum considered main itemsudincluding students’ need analysis and interest, need of class, their grade level, prior knowledge, the preferenceudof learning style, audiovisual and interesting media, here and now topic, modified and adjusted instructionaludtechnique by conducting three phases; analysis, design, implementation. It could lead teachers to redesign theudinstructional media by accepting, discussing the students’ need to find the enjoyable media of learning English,udasking to guess the vocabulary, practicing and drilling their pronunciation. The reason why they redesign itudbecause English as minimum curriculum could be developed by moving on the teachers’ creativity and students,udas extracurriculair, it should be developed and managed based on the schools’characteristics related to theirudvision and mission. They should understand young learners’ characteristics (Scott&Ytreberg,1990), analyze theudstudents’need. This research will be good input for local education official to support developing curriculumudand empower the elementary schools’ teachers innitiative.udKeywords: redesign, instructional, media, teaching, elementary students