The Art of Defining 'Resources'

According to Jayne Moon, which taken from the book Children Learning English, resources can be defined as anything which can assist the teaching/ learning process, either human or material. It can be song tapes, magazines, charts, pictures, flashcards, textbooks, task sheets, puppets, realia, posters, objects, pupils and many more can be listed. Resources are essential for primary school pupils because it able to make a lesson interesting as it would be colorful and has sense of motion. Furthermore, children learn better if they involve in ‘hands-on’ activities using resources as it appeals to 5 senses of the children. Thus, it can sustain students’ short attention span and also motivate them to learn. Resources help children to link meaning with the words related to the resources, which makes the learning more meaningful. In addition to that, resources also provide opportunity for the pupils to practice the language. Since we are walking along the bridge of scientific era, teachers nowadays tend to use technological gadgets as the resources for lessons. For instances, the Internet, assists Malaysian teachers to conduct lessons as teachers download video clips, songs and images from the network as aids in explaining a teaching point. This indirectly creates a dynamic and attractive learning environment as it stimulates the children to interact with the resources.