21 Pendidikan is a curriculum in which school is given a privacy to develop their
curriculum The National Education Department, 2008. In this school, one academic year consists of two semester namely odd and even semester. Each
semester lasts for six months. From the analysis of the primarily studies, the implementation of podcasts
media gives good results on the progress of the students’ pronunciation
performance. In this case, the students are excited to join the learning process and they are focus when listening and watching the podcasts.
B. Reviews of Related Studies
According to Hew 2009 as cited in Long and Fabry 2011, p. 13, he says that
“podcasting is a relatively unexplored technology tool in education. At that time, it is true that podcasting is unexplored technology tool in education
”. It is because technology becomes the rare and expensive things. Nowadays,
technology is not a rare thing anymore in education. Many teachers use technology such as email, website, and blog, to support their learning process
more. Nowadays, the use of technology in education is not the weird thing
anymore. It is proved by Traphagan, Kuesera, and Kishi 2010 as cited in Long and Fabry 2011, p. 13 who said that podcasting is an audio-file download
technology currently being used to facilitate the delivery of instruction in both traditional and online courses. Based on the definition above, it can be concluded
22 that podcasting as a tool to facilitate on giving instruction in learning process. It is
proved by Hew 2009, p. 346 as cited in Long and Fabry 2011, p. 13 who said the research has focus on examining where and how to best use podcasts as an
instructional medium. Hence, podcasts must be used as an instruction. According to Bangert 2005, Bannan-Ritland 2002, Dennen 2007, and
Kennedy 2004 as cited in Long and Fabry 2011, p. 14, “podcasts have the
potential to enhance student knowledge construction in the socio-cognitive environment
”. The purpose and design of the podcasts is critical to student learning. As a result, podcasts becomes a tool that can be used in education
because the teachers or educators can design podcasts by themselves that appropriate to the students.
C. Theoretical Framework
In conducting this research, the researcher analyzes the use of podcasts in learning pronunciation in VIII B class of SMP PGRI 10 Wedi, Klaten. The
researcher employed pronunciation, Classroom Action Research, and podcasts theories to solve the research problem: 1 how does the use of podcasts help the
students to learn pronunciation?. Yuzawa 2007, p. - said pronunciation is a basic and essential skill
required for those who want to use English communicatively. The researcher used theory of pronunciation in order to find out
the students’ difficulties in pronouncing
English words especially animals’ names which had two or more PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
23 syllables. Hence, the theory of Burns and Claire 2003 about seven principles of
learning pronunciation, Ravin n.d theory about five techniques of learning pronunciation, and Thornbury 2005 as cited in Ginanjar 2013 about drilling
were used to solve the research problem. Mettetal 2001 theory about Classroom Action Research was applied in order to find out an appropriate method or
treatment to improve and solve VIII B class of SMP PGRI 10 Wedi, Klaten’s
problems. In finding out an appropriate method or treatment, the researcher applied D
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
