INTRODUCTION
1.1.Background of study
thoroughly in the world. It was researched that among 4,000 to 5,000 languages,
English is the most widely used (Brumfit et al, 1980:1). Nowadays, English is taught
As we know that there are four skills in a language, they are: listening,
speaking, reading, and writing. All of those skills have to be mastered by everyone
who is learning English. Listening is considered as the first skill that children acquire
Broughton, Flavell, Hill and Pincas, 1980:65). By this fact we can understand that
the English learners will much easier in learning English when they acquire it, not
studying it. The learners can still find out other factors that ease them in learning such
as the cultural view, body language, and stress and intonation, which they can deal
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with in all audiovisual stuff. Hence, it is important to improve listening skill in order
However, the fact is many high school students are rarely taught listening
skill, but mostly reading and writing. Based on the writer’s observation while being a
practical teacher in MAN 3 KOTA Banda Aceh from February up to June 2010, the
writer found that the teacher often gives reading and writing tasks such as: reading
aloud, answering question from the text, and writing a short story. Furthermore, the
teacher only speaks a little English in class. Then, how can the students able to speak
if they barely listen to the teacher who is speaking English? They will absolutely be
passive in English. This is contrary to Scott and Ytreberg’s statement about listening,
that is, listening must be done as much as possible in order to make the students
better in speaking, reading, and writing. Besides, the learning process of listening will
be much effective by involving visualization, because the learners not only use their
organ of hearing but also use their sight to help them interpret the case being
discussed in the listening tasks precisely. Thus, the process would come more
intensive as the learners see the use of “language in use” (Hammer, 2007:172). From
those reasons elaborated above, the writer would like to do her research by preserving
the students by movie scenes displays to help them in enhancing their ability in
listening.
Rose and Nicholl (2002) found that it would be fun and playful if we conduct
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can involve themselves totally in the situation of the scene and they go with the
mastery of listening skills, teachers need to carefully select and prepare a variety of
quality teaching materials and aids to be used in a language laboratory, ensuring that
the learners will gain optimum results from the listening lessons. A relatively simple
containing movies or movie scenes as teaching aids and then developing materials
Lastly, based on the previous point of view, the writer decides to do a research on
Based on the background explained before, the problem of the study is: does
1.3. Hypothesis
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1.3.2. Null Hypothesis
1.5.Scope of study.
The scope of study restricted on the analyzing the movie scenes role in
By conducting this study, the writer hopes it can be a reference or model for
high school teachers in teaching complete English skills to their students in class. To
help them in mastering perfect and convenient English, starting from listening skill is
not a choice, it is a compulsory. The writer also wishes that it can be the reference as
well for the academic community who will be conducting on the same field research.
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1.7. Review of Literature.
1.7.1. Listening
“Listening” which comes from the word listen means to pay attention to
somebody or something that you can hear (Oxford Dictionary, 2000:783). Listening
is an active process of selecting and interpreting information from auditory and visual
clues (Rubin, 1995 in Dozer, 1997:2). According to Brown and Yule (1983 in Dozer,
itself, and the factors that characterize the listener, the speaker, the content of the
concepts of using authentic materials with regard to second language acquisition have
been with us for many years, video and audiotape materials have been used
digital media (audio and visual), in this case movie scenes. Movies are made up of so
many components that we sometimes do them an injustice by merely using them for
“watching.” From the actors, directors, background work, costumes, themes that
result in a final production, a lot of work has been put into the film and could be used
as a means to improve language learning and for adding interest to lessons (Lever,
2010).
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Though, indeed, several teachers have started using digital music and oral
materials, video content from movies offers significant advantages. These are; movies
are popular and have universal appeal across cultures, providing current language
usage, they present visual context in which the dialogue takes place, action
accompanying speech, and they show gestures, facial expression, and other body
of specifically using digital movie trailers are that they are of high quality, the best
that professional studios can be used, short with very concise, catchy dialogue, having
highlights of the entire movie, and free, readily available from the Internet.
1.8.Research Methodology
1.8.1. Method
To prove the hypothesis of this study, the writer will use experimental
quantitative research. This method examines the influencing one variable to the other
one and the hypothesis of cause-effect relation. In this method, there are two groups
that will be researched and compared each other, they are experimental group and
control group. The experimental group is taught by using the visualization aids, in
this case are movie scenes, while the control group is not.
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The population of this research is the students if the second grade in
---------------------. The sample is from two classes which each classes consists of 25
students. One class is for experimental group and the other is for control group.
For the instrument of data collection, the writer is experienced already in that
school since once she had been a practical teacher in -----------------------. This helps
the writer much on conducting her research in that school. Firstly, she will give a pre-
test consisting of 20 multiple choices. After doing so, she will teach for four (4)
meetings, and finally ended by a post-test separated meeting as the evaluation of the
To conduct this study, the writer will apply experimental research. There will
be two groups, experimental group and control group in running this activity. The
writer will teach those classes for some meetings—four (4) meetings—by using the
movie scenes for the experimental group and regular teaching process for control
group.
After conducting the test and collecting the data, the result will be analyzed
and compared by using statistical formula taken from Arikunto (2003:266,272) and
Brown (1999: 68-87). The statistical formula are: mean, standard deviation, and T-
test.
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