Review of the Previous Study

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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter consists of review of the previous studies, review of theoretical study, and framework of analysis.

2.1 Review of the Previous Study

There have been a number of researchers conducted some studies related to the use of subtitled English songs to improve the vocabulary mastery of junior high school students. The first was a research conducted by Fidyatur Rohmah 2009 entitled The Use of Audio Visual Dictionary for Teaching English Vocabulary An Action Research of the Sixth Grade Students at SDN 01 Kebondalem Pemalang in the Academic Year of 2009. The objectives of using Audio Visual Dictionary were find out how Audio Visual Dictionary used in teaching vocabulary. The research method was a classroom action research. In addition, the students showed positive responses and enthusiasm in learning vocabulary using Audio Visual Dictionary. The second was a research conducted by Lutfina Tarita Wulandari entitled The Effectiveness of Tv Cards Thematicvocabulary Cards to Improve the Students’ English Vocabulary An Action Research of the Seventh Grade Students of SMP N 1 Wonosobo in the Academic Year of 2012 2013. The objectives of using Tv Cards Thematicvocabulary Cards were find out how Tv Cards Thematicvocabulary Cards used in teaching vocabulary. The research method was a classroom action research. The students showed positive responses and enthusiasm in learning vocabulary using Tv Cards Thematicvocabulary Cards. The third was a research conducted by Khabibah 2006 entitled The Use of Pictures-Board-Game as a Vocabulary Teaching Technique. The objectives of this study are to investigate whether there is a significant difference of vocabulary achievement between the students who have been taught using Pictures-Board- Game technique and those who have been taught using the conventional method, and also to know whether the use of Pictures-Board-Game technique is more effective than the conventional technique. The population of this study was fifth graders of SD Negeri Sekaran 01 Gunungpati Semarang in the academic year of 20052006 consisting of 40 students. All the population were taken as the sample and randomly assigned into two groups: the experimental group and the control group. This study was an experimental quantitative research. The result shows that there is a significant difference between the means on the experimental and control group in the t-test analysis. The fourth was a research conducted by Suryani 2009 who wrote Improving Vocabulary Proficiency through Pictures to the Fourth Graders of Perumnas Banyumanik 09 Semarang Elementary School stated that teaching young learners is not the same as teaching adults, because they have different characteristics and motivation. She said that when children learn with some interesting media such as pictures, games, music, etc, they will be more enthusiastic to learn the lesson. Suryani used pictures with some different topics to teach the students. The result of the study showed that the students’ achievement in learning vocabulary using picture had a significant improvement. Based on my observation, this medium also has a weakness. Teacher has to provide quite many pictures related to ongoing material; for example, when students learn about animals, a teacher has to bring several pictures of animal. It is not a simple way to teach if we have to present more than one materials. The fifth was a research conducted by Rohmah 2011 in her research report entitled The Use of Internet Picture Dictionary as Media in Teaching Vocabulary at the Fourth Grade Students of SD N 04 Purwodadi Grobogan, she focuses that using this medium is very useful for students to learn English. It is also mentioned that this medium provided many pictures of vocabulary. As a result, using Internet Picture Dictionary was easier for teacher to deliver vocabulary material and it could increase students’ interest in learning vocabulary. She said that with Internet Picture Dictionary, students were more interested in and enthusiastic to give attention to the teaching learning process. Rohmah added that it was easier for students to understand and memorize the lesson because they could see the objects which were drawn directly. The result also showed that this medium can improve students’ vocabulary mastery. The way to teach by using this medium is very simple, since teacher only has to be equipped with laptop and projector to display the material. The sixth was a research conducted by Mardiyatun 2007 in her final project entitled Children Songs as Media in Teaching Pronunciation concluded that using English songs, especially children songs as a media in teaching pronunciation is a good way as they offer many possibilities in improving pronun ciation. Moreover, using children songs in teaching can increase students’ interest to learn English. The seventh was a research conducted by Saufika 2008 entitled English Songs as a Media for Improving students’ Quality of Pronunciation. Based on her research, she had proved that English songs can be used as an effective media to teach pronunciation. In conducting the research, she use action research consist of two cycles, they are pre-test, treatment and post-test for each cycle. The result showed that mean of the pre-test is 5. It has increased became 5.7 at the first post- test and it is clearly enough to see the mean in the second post-test, that is 7.7. It is proved that teaching English using songs is effective way to teach pronunciation. In addition, the last references is from Muryanah Sri Wardani 2009 entitled “The Use of Children Songs as Media to Improve Students’ Pronunciation”. It was the case of the fourth grade students of SD Negeri Wringinputih 02, in the academic year of 20082009. The objectives of the study were to find out whether or not using children song as media to teach English pronunciation can improve students ability of students of SD N Wringinputih 02 in pronunciation and it is pleasing or not. The result of this study was the teaching learning process by using English children song can improve students’ ability in English pronunciation. Based on the researches above, the use of subtitled English songs to improve students’ vocabulary is still rarely used. Thus, the writer is interested in using this media in her study. The result of this study can be used as the consideration in using subtitled English songs to improve students’ vocabulary.

2.2 Review of Theoretical Study