3 media to help the students to make their pronunciation skills better because
podcasts provided colorful pictures with audio and there were many sources of podcasts in YouTube which could be downloaded easily. Therefore, podcasts
were interesting and it could help and improve the learning process, the researcher used Classroom Action Research CAR to apply podcasts in this research.
B. Research Problem
According to the background of the research, the researcher formulates the research question as follows:
1. How does the use of podcasts help the students to learn pronunciation?
That problem was proposed in order to know whether the use of podcasts helps the students to learn pronunciation in VIII B of SMP PGRI 10 Wedi, Klaten.
C. Problem Limitation
In this research, the researcher makes some limitations. Firstly, the researcher uses the results of pre-test and post-
test to see the students’ progress. The students are from VIII B class of SMP PGRI 10 Wedi, Klaten in academic
year 20152016 which consist of 15 students. Moreover, the podcasts material used in this research is about animals.
4
D. Research Objective
The objective of the research is to find out how the use of podcasts helps the students to learn pronunciation in VIII B of SMP PGRI 10 Wedi, Klaten.
E. Research Benefits
The researcher hopes that this research will bring benefits especially for: 1.
The readers This research can give new information about the use of podcasts in
learning pronunciation to the readers. Therefore, the readers can develop their pronunciation skills by using podcasts.
2. English students
This research can help the students in learning pronunciation with fun way and easier by using podcasts. Therefore, the students can increase their
pronunciation skills to pronounce English words correctly. 3.
English teachers This research can help the teachers understand that the use of podcasts
help the students increase their pronunciation skills. Some benefits are involved for the teachers, namely, several successful steps for teaching and learning
activities using podcasts are made. The steps are: instructing the students to sit in their own chair, giving the materials about the animals, assigning each student to
5 pronounce the animals, and giving the podcasts to correct their wrong
pronunciation. 4.
Future researchers This research can inspire other researchers who will conduct a similar
research and further discussion on the use of podcasts as medium to increase the students’ pronunciation skills.
F. Definitions of Terms
