Morrison 2002:467-468 states five functions of animation in interactive multimedia. Animation is used to make instruction attractive to students to gain
the attention of students and to signal salient points such as switching topics, to motivate students when an incorrect answer is given, to provide a concrete
reference and a visual context for ideas, and to provide a conceptual understanding.
5. Video The last but not least element is digital video. Mishra and Reddi
2004:167 state that video has an innate ability to engross people and to persuade them. They also recommend two choices of video in interactive multimedia by
use very short video clips not exceeding a minute or two and highly compressed video files like MPEG or AVI files that can be transformed to MPEG files.
d. Interactive Multimedia for Vocabulary Learning
The development of technology makes multimedia becomes an issue in the teaching of English especially vocabulary. The use of multimedia in the teaching
and learning process is expected to enhance the students’ attitude towards English learning and to improve students’ vocabulary skill.
Hai-peng and Li jing 2007, vol. 5:8 in their study states that vocabulary acquisition under multi-media environment can improve the vocabulary teaching
efficiency and extend students’ vocabulary, and it is also of great help in improving students’ English level as a whole, for teaching-software usually
carries the voices of native-speakers with rich context. It helps the learners foster a nice linguistics intuition.
Meanwhile Kayaoglu, Akbas, and Ozturk 2011, vol. 10:2 states in their research findings that the application of animation, as one of multimedia, in the
class makes the students become aware of its contribution to their vocabulary knowledge. They wanted to see such kind of activities more often since they
attracted students’ attention and motivated them for learning. In summary, it can be concluded that the integration of multimedia in
teaching vocabulary is beneficial on improving the students’ vocabulary skills. It also changes the students’ attitude towards vocabulary learning. The developed
multimedia in this study is also expected to make the teaching and learning process of vocabulary become more interesting and vivid.
B. Relevant Studies
Some researchers had researched on the studies related to developing vocabulary learning multimedia. Lauc 2006:119 who conducted a descriptive
study stated, in his reseach result, that the group of learners dealing with the multimedia conveyed considerably better results than the other group of learners
in learning vocabulary. It means that the use of multimedia in teaching and learning process may enhance learners’ motivation to learn vocabulary.
The findings of study, that was conducted by Nuradila 2014, showed that learners want to learn vocabulary in order to understand the difficult terms so that
they are able to comprehend texts. The existence of multimedia can help them to learn vocabulary because it is more effective than having the difficult words
written on their textbooks because the interactive multimedia covers not only the meanings and spellings of the words but also the pronunciation. The vocabulary
