Movies as Teaching Media

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3. Movies as Teaching Media

This section discusses a movie as teaching media. There are a lot of media that can be used as teaching media for instance poem, novel, short story, internet, music, realia, flashcard, computer Microsoft Office tools and movie or film. Since 1970’s, educators have experienced in using a film as a teaching tool Champoux, 2007. According to Hamalik 1980, teaching medium is a device, method, and technique that are used to make an effective communication and interaction between a teacher and the learners in the learning process at school p. 23. The power of a movie for learning lies in the use of multimedia in engaging students visually, cognitively, emotionally, socially, and civically in the area of the academic content. In Willinghams 2009 research, he asks a simple question to make his point, Why do students remember everything thats on television and forget what we lecture?, because visual media helps students retain concepts and ideas. Through movies, students have chance to listen to the native speakers with standard pronunciation, accent, intonation and stress. There are some advantages of using movies as a teaching media. First is movies have very high production quality capable of showcasing complex ideas in a short period of time. Second is movies offer both cognitive and affective experiences. It can provoke discussion, an assessment of ones values, and an assessment if the scenes have strong emotional content. Third is movies as media sources help connect learners with events that are culturally relevant. The forth is students can hone their analytical skills by analyzing film scenes using the theories and concepts they are studying. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 17 Teachers, who use instructional movie, reports that their students retain more information, understand concepts more rapidly, and are more enthusiastic about what they are learning. Using a video as one component in a thoughtful lesson plan, students often make new connections between learning topics, and discover links between these topics and the world outside the classroom. Besides, the writer also saw some advantages and disadvantages of using English movies according to experts. The advantages of using movies according to Nasution 2005, p. 104 in teaching and learning process are movie is very good in describing a process, if necessary by using a “slow motion”. Each student, either the clever ones or the less intelegent ones, can learn something from the movie they watched. Movie can take students ’ imagination to other countries and to other ages. Movie can be repeated if necessary to add clarity. The disadvantages of using movie according to Azhar 2011 in teaching and learning process are: procurement of English movie is generally expensive and costs a lot of time. When the movie showed, the pictures will keep changing making all students are not able to follow the information given through the movie. Movie is not always appropriate with the needs and desired learning objective. According to Koolstra and Beentjes 1999 movies or subtitle programs provides a rich context new word and pronunciation for foreign language acquisition. In another research unpublishedone cited in Milton, 2008, a DVD of Xena Warrior Princess movie title with English audio and English subtitles was taken as an example to check learners’ vocabulary uptake from a movies with subtitles. This is the reason why the writer is interested in conducting this research, PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 18 because movie gives a new enjoyable atmosphere when they are learning in a class. Although using movies has disadvantages, the writer has some plans to overcome the problem by doing strategic stopping and rewinding actions to give students a chance to receive the information given by the movie and remove some inapproriate scenes shown in the movie. Thus, the students’ concentration will not wane if they watch for a long time. This research is formulated in one question. In order to answer the research question, the writer considers two theories from the experts. First is movie as a teaching medium from Hamalik 1980 and the second is teaching vocabulary from Brown 2001. Those theories are also related to the teaching vocabulary using movies to high school students. In teaching vocabulary using movies, teachers should pay attention to some instructions. First, the learners must be interested in understanding the message of the movies. Second, the message should contain some items that are just outside the learners’ present level of their achievement. Third, the learners should not feel worried or threatened by their contact with the foreign language. Thus, teachers are a mediator and facilitator in the class.

B. The Discussion

This subsection would answer the research question in the previous chapter. In order to answer the research question, the writer gave the steps of RD which are used in this study and made some lesson plans, which are implemented in school.