THE EFFECT OF USING ANIMATION VIDEO ON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT AT SMPN 5 JEMBER

Abstract

Vocabulary is one of the three English language components which plays an important role in mastering all English skills. Kamil and Hiebert (2005:3) state that when the number of known words are not sufficient, comprehension will not be achieved for listening and reading skill. Furthermore, the students will get difficulty in constructing their ideas to produce the language for speaking and writing skill. To solve the problem above, the teacher can use media in teaching learning activities. The researcher considers the use of animation video as the appropriate teaching media to facilitate the students to get rich vocabulary instruction since it stimulates students’ autonomy and proactivity. Besides, it motivates students’ passion for learning English and helps the teacher to get students’ attention to the lesson. The use of animation video also portraits the realistic situations in life and provides the students with direct access to learn the culture of the target language (Wang 2004). This experimental research was intended to investigate the effect of using animation video on the eighth grade students’ vocabulary achievement at SMPN 5 Jember in the 2016/2017 academic year. The population of this research was all of the eighth grade students of SMPN 5 Jember. The research respondents were determined based on the result of students’ homogeneity test scores by using ANOVA formula, in which the result showed that the population of the research was homogeneous so that the experimental class and the control class were determined by using lottery. The number of the respondents was 73 students, consisting of 36 students of grade VIII-A as the experimental group that was taught vocabulary by using animation video and 37 students of VIII-B as the control group that was taught vocabulary by using lecturing technique. The data of this research were collected from students’ scores of vocabulary achievement test, interview and documentation. The vocabulary achievement test was collected from the post-test which was done to compare students’ vocabulary achievement of the two groups after treatment. Then, the researcher analyzed the result of the test by using t-test formula. Based on the calculation of data analysis, it was proved that the use of animation video affected significantly on the eighth grade students’ vocabulary achievement at SMPN 5 Jember in the 2016/2017 academic year. It could be known from the value of significance that was less than 0.05 (0.000) with the significance interval of 95% which indicated that the result of t-test analysis was significant. Therefore, the alternative hypothesis which was formulated as: “there is a significant effect of using animation video on the eighth grade students’ vocabulary achievement at SMPN 5 Jember” was accepted. The research results proved that there was a significant effect of using animation video on the eighth grade students’ vocabulary achievement at SMPN 5 Jember. Therefore, it is recommended for the English teacher to use animation video as an effective teaching media in teaching vocabulary.