COMBINING NEW TECHNOLOGY IN ELT TO CREATE INNOVATION IN STUDENT’S LEARNING

Abstract

The media is rising up significantly nowadays, actually in using media of information technology such as: gadget, media social and e-news which are connected to internet. Here English in Language Teaching (ELT) needs improvement continuously, which combining the ELT with technology which can be connected to internet. The research is to investigate the effectiveness in helping assessment and evaluation when someone uses this video editing software. The software used was mixing the audio, visual and text. Commonly it is to present the authentic material, show sample based on video reality automatically and to visualize the timed-based test without a paper. Since it is able connect to internet, anywhere and anytime student is able to do the test. The additional technology effect of using software in ELT is there was a stress reducing because of music background. Theoretically, the student’s focus must move up and the target of the teaching-learning more effective. The design of the research is experiment with the "posttest-only control group design."  The location was at SDN 1 Baledono, Kecamatan Purworejo. This result shows using the software in ELT can give the positive effect for student in elementary school.

Keywords: Teaching, media technology, gadget.