DEVELOPING DIGITAL FLASHCARD MEDIA IN TEACHING ENGLISH VOCABULARY TO 4TH GRADE STUDENTAT SDN 112280 AEK KANOPAN

This study aims to develop teaching media for students of 4th Grade at SDN 112280 in teaching English vocabulary. This research was Research and Development design that has purpose to develop new products and procedures. In conducting this research, the researcher applied research and development theory from Gall et al. (2003). There were six stages that researcher employed from this theory, those stages are gathering information and data, need analysis, designing, revising, validating, and final product. The data were obtained by conducting an interview to English teacher and distributing questionnaire to 18 students to analyze students‟ need. The results of the interview and questionnaire show that Engllish teacher did not provide and apply English teaching media. In addition, the students need teaching media to help them in in learning Engllilsh vocabulary.
The digital flashcard and the guide of digital flashcard use were the result of the final product. Those product had been validated by two experts, namely the English teacher and lecturer. With the maximum score of validation 125, the score of product validation given by the first expert was 96 (87%). Then, the second expert gave a score 99 (90%) which is classified to very good criteria. It also could be conclude that the media was already appropiate and possible to use as a teaching media for students.