Student teacher's challenges in designing multimedia teaching material for teaching english

The use of multimedia teaching material can help teachers to make a deliver the materials to the students in a more interesting and easier way, therefore teachers need to develop their own multimedia teaching material to help them accomplish their teaching goals. Before becoming a real teacher, the student teachers of English Language Education Department UINSA also need to prepare their own multimedia teaching material for teaching English in their second teaching practice. This research is conducted to identify the student teachers’ challenge in designing multimedia teaching material for teaching English and the way to overcome it. The participant of this research is the student teacher of English Language Education Department who develop their own multimedia teaching material for teaching English in the form of powerpoint in their teaching practice. The research method that was used in this research is case study research design. The data was collected using questionnaire and interview. Based on this research result, the student teachers faced challenges on the selecting and displaying the materials stage and integrating the materials stage. To overcome these challenges, the student teachers do the steps which is related to Mayer’s 12 principles to design a good multimedia. Not only doing the steps which on the principles but the student teachers also doing an online referencing and asking their friends who has similar class level and teaching environment.