Learning from Television (Thesis) Traditionally, educators have perceived television as not particularly beneficial to literacy development. concerns were fueled by findings suggesting that with the of television time reading books and reading scores decline. As our society is striving to make adjustments to the decline in literacy skills, new ways of learning and teaching are being explored educators are becoming interested in has increased for several reasons. exploring the educationa potential of television Therefore, the interest in television as an educational medium (Arguments) First, existing educational television programs that were developed to enhance the literacy development of both children and adults have been quite successful in their intended outcomes This has been reported in several researches dealing with such things such as television supported distance learning programs from the Open University in Great Britain. Second.because television is a very accessible medium , it has the potential to reach learners that have not been able to participate in traditional adult literacy programs. Television is accessible both in terms of its technology and in terms of its content. By 1985, 99% of all US households had a least one television set. Moreover.viewers are intimately familiar with the content of television and tend to associate it with pleasurable because of its power to entertain. Finally.the development of new visual technologies makes it possible to provide users with more control and interactivity and thus to adapt televised instruction to the needs of a variety of learners and learning styles (Reiteration) To conclude, many teachers in UK are recently becoming aware to benefit the potential of television programs to support the teaching processes. TASKS 1. Write 5 sentences that contain simple present tense from the text above! __ __ __ __ __ 2. Write the word that express the writer thinking/feel? example: experience feel, know, realize , sense, think, dll. __ __ __ __ __ 3. Write the connective words (kata penghubung) Adding information,which is adding Examples include and,moreover, in addition and also Contrasting information , which is contrasting Examples include but,however, and even though. Causality.which is showing cause and effect. Examples include because, therefore, thus consequently, despite,due to, for that reason , etc. __ __ __ __ __ __ 4. Write the opinion words (seem, feel, think, know realize, etc.) __ __ __ __ __