| dc.description.abstract | This research was a classroom action research. The purpose of this
research is to improve the grade VIII-A students’ vocabulary achievement by
using cartoon movie media at SMP Negeri 14 Jember. The area of this research
was SMP Negeri 14 Jember. It was chosen purposively because the use of cartoon
movie media as media of teaching English had never been applied in teaching
learning process in this school and there was a request from the English teacher of
SMP Negeri 14 Jember to introduce the attractive media which can be applied in
English teaching and learning to improve the students’ vocabulary achievement.
This classroom action research was done in two cycles (Cycle 1 and Cycle
2) and consisted of four activities they are: planning of the action, the
implementation of the action, classroom observation and evaluation, analyzing the
data and reflection. The primary data of this research related to the students’
vocabulary achievement were collected by using vocabulary test and classroom
observation. The analysis of vocabulary test must perform at least 75% of the
students got > 70. Meanwhile, the supporting data were collected by using
interview and documentation at SMP Negeri 14 Jember on 19th and 20th May
2014.
The subject of this research was grade VIII-A students. The result of
teaching vocabulary by using cartoon movie media in the teaching and learning
process in Cycle 1 showed that the percentage of the students who achieved the
standard score > 70 was 67.5% or 27 of 40 students. Based on the result of
vocabulary test, cycle one was considered not successful because the percentage
of the students who achieved > 70 was under 75%. The observation checklist was
used to indicate that the grade VIII-A students were active during the vocabulary
teaching and learning process. It consisted of six indicators, namely: 1) Paying
attention to the teacher’s explanation, 2) Watching the cartoon movie, 3)
Answering the teacher’s oral questions, 4) Asking questions orally to the teacher,
5) Using dictionary to look up the meaning of the words, 6) Doing the vocabulary
exercises after watching the cartoon movie. In the first meeting of Cycle 1, the
result of the students’ active participation during vocabulary teaching and learning
process showed that there were 20 students of 40 students or 50% were active. In
addition, in the second meeting of Cycle 1 showed that 27 of 40 students or 67.5%
were actively participated. Based on the result of observation during teaching and
learning process in Cycle 1 it could be concluded that the students’ active
participation had not been achieved yet because the standard requirement was
75%. Therefore, the researcher conducted Cycle 2 by revising the teaching
techniques applied in Cycle 1 they are:
1. The researcher prepared the atmosphere of the classroom by reducing
the brightness of the light, the electricity, and the layer of viewer
before teaching vocabulary by using cartoon movie media.
2. The researcher used Gom Player and TXT file as computer application
to improve the gap (time) of subtitle and the sound of character in the
cartoon movie media.
3. The researcher convert 3gp video format by using video converter tool
to mp4 video to make the visualization of the cartoon movie video
clearer and reduced the stretch of color of the cartoon movie media.
4. The researcher used English and Indonesian language in teaching and
learning process.
Based on the result of observation in Cycle 2 it was found that the result of
vocabulary test showed that the students who got scores > 70 increased from 27 of 40
students or 67.5% in Cylce 1 to 75% or 30 of 40 students in Cycle 2. In Cycle 2 for the first
meeting, there were 27 of 40 students or 67.5% were actively participated in the vocabualry
teaching and learning process. In the second meeting, there were 30 of 40 students or 75%
were actively participated in the teaching and learning process. It means that grade VIII-A
students were more active in Cycle 2.
Based on the result of the teaching and learning process by using cartoon movie
media, it could be concluded that the use of cartoon movie media could improve grade
VIII-A students’ vocabulary achievement and active participation in the teaching learning
process. | en_US |
