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Review Journal

Review Journal with the topic Strategy approach to English education

The Component of Journal

Title :

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE?: A STRATEGY OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDENTS TO IMPROVE ENGLISH VOCABULARY 

Journal : 

Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning

Volume and page :

Vol. 1, No 2, December 2020, Page 44-49

Publicated year :

2020

Writer :

1) Marta Widiawitasari Br Simamora

2) Lulud Oktaviani

Reviewer :

Dhea Fitri Ayuningtyas (2010631060066) 

Date :

11 April 2022

The aim of research :

The aim of this research is to know is watching students' favorite movie can increase student skill of English vocabulary. 

The subject of research :

students from the English Education Study Program of Faculty of Arts and Education in Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia. 

The assesment data :

Descriptive qualitative, questionnaires and interviews

Methodology of research :

In this study, a descriptive qualitative method was employed. This research was done through questionnaires and interviews. In the questionnaire, researchers provided 5 questions to students that were distributed to the participants to collect their perspective data. After the researchers distributed the questionnaire, the researchers also continued with an interview. 

Discussion :

The questionnaire consisted of two types of questions. There were yes-no questions and scale questions. 

The first question is "Do you like watching English movies?". Of 27 people who filled out the questionnaire, 99.3% of them liked watching English movies while 6,7% of them don’t like to watch movies. It showed that almost all of the participants had a positive thought about watching English Movies. The second question is How often do you watch English Movies? By seeing the diagram at this journal, it could be stated that only 4% of the participants were very rare in watching a movie while 44% of them were often watching a movie and 22% of them were frequently watching English movies. Then, it could be concluded that almost all of the participants were often watching English movies. The next question is Do you think watching English movies could help you learn English?. The data showed that all the participants (100%) agreed that while watching English movies, they could also learn English. This proof that by watching movies, students could gain new knowledge about the English Language. The fourth question is “Do you think watching English Movies could increase your vocabulary?. The result was the same as the previous question that all participants agreed by watching English Movies they could gain new vocabulary. This data showed that through watching English movies, students learned new words that they did not learn in school/college. The last question for the yes/no question is "Do you think watching English Movie Improve your listening ability?". As stated before that watching movies also could help students in improving their listening ability, and by listening and watching the movies students will found new English words. The data in this journal showed that 89% of the participants believed that by watching English movies they could improve their listening skills while 11 % of them disagreed with this statement. The result of this research also showed that through watching movies students not only could gain more vocabulary but also could improve other skills like Listening Skills. 

Conclusion

From all data above, researchers concluded that watching English Movies could help students in learning English. This could happen because in watching movies students often hearing new words that they might never hear before. They could also guess the meaning through the sentence, expression, and scene in the movies. The participants also said that the more they watched English movies, the more they got influence by the English Movies. The influence here is the way the actors or actresses speak and use them in sentences. Watching English movies also made the students accustomed to the English language. They also have added some vocabularies to their memory through listening and watching English Movies. 

The advantages of research in this journal

The advantage of this journal is that it uses a qualitative descriptive research method, namely questionnaires and interviews. Here, it is very visible that the participation of the subject under study on whether watching a favorite movie can improve students' English vocabulary skills. Here it is clearly seen through the diagrammatic photos of the results of the research which show that the participants agreed to the questions posed by the author. In my opinion, the structure of this journal is complete, from the purpose to the conclusion the author presents it very neatly. This makes it easy for readers to understand the contents of this journal.

Disadvantages of research in this journal

The shortcomings encountered by the authors The title does not state for what school level this research was carried out. 

Journal Source :

https://doi.org/10.33365/jeltl.v1i2.604

Reference of journal

Simamora, M. W. B., & Oktaviani, L. (2020). What is your favorite movie?: a strategy of English Education students to improve english vocabulary. Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 1(2), 44-49.