Taxonomy analysis of English Language Teaching (ELT) media used by teachers at SMAN 1 Gedangan”

Every learning is never separated from the learning media, one of which is in learning English. English Language Teaching (ELT) media aims to make it easier for teachers to deliver the lessons and make it easier for students to understand the lesson in a variety of ways and fun. In addition, the media can also increase students' enthusiasm and motivation in learning. In the media, there are several taxonomies that are used to determine the levels of the media, namely; low, medium and high. This study aims to find out what English learning media are usually used by teachers and at what level the media used by teachers in implementing English Language Teaching (ELT) at SMAN 1 Gedangan according to media taxonomy. This research is descriptive qualitative research. This research used observation and interview as data collection techniques. The researcher conducted observations three times for three English teachers and also conducted interview with each teacher to find out what learning media were used. After getting the results of observation and interview, the researcher used theory about the media taxonomy of Edling to be able to know at what level of media used by teachers in implementing English Language Teaching (ELT). The results of this study indicate that in learning English, the teacher used at least one medium at each level, namely Audio Experience (medium level in Objective Codification Audio and low level in Subjective Codification), Visual Experience (medium level in Objective Codification Visual and low level in Subjective Codification Audio) and three-dimensional experience (high level in direct experience with people and high level direct experience with objects). Apart from these results, the researcher also found that the teachers usually used media at the medium level of Objective Codification (Visual). The results of this study indicate that teachers use a lot of media in implementing English language Teaching.