PAPER ABOUT

WATCHING MOVIES
TO IMPROVE STUDENTS LISTENING SKILL

NAME: RAHMATIKA ILAFI

NPM: 1210013121049

English Department of Bung Hatta University

The Faculty of Teaching Traning and Education

2014
 WATCHING MOVIES
TO IMPROVE STUDENTS LISTENING SKILL

A. INTRODUCTION

a. Problem Background

Nowadays, many students do not understand about listening in ESL. Theyre difficult to

listen the vocabulary that the native speaker has said. Even though they know the English

vocabulary well, but the listening material is not easy for the students if it isnt hear well. If

the students are not always listening the words or vocabularies from the alternative media,

they can not listen it exactly. So, to solve this problem, the teacher/lecturer must introduce the

media and use it in English Language Teaching for the students. The media like; movie can

improve the students basic skill in listening, because, the movie is an alternative media that can

make the students are interested in learning, get new vocabularies and can pronounce them well.

For the first basic skill, listening is paying attention with the sound, how is it told and

focus with the other person to uses his/her body. Without listening, we can not speak what the

people mean. Listening is also needed by every people to express the words well. The lecturer

and students will be easy to understand it in learning the material. In ELT, listening must be

trained as often as possible for students.

See the graph of Students Vocabularies

 Graph of Student's Vocabularies
70%
60%
50%
40%
30% Students
20%
10%
0%
2011 2012 2013 2014

Based on the graph above, we can see since 2011 until 2014 the students vocabularies is

increase rapidly, why? Because watching the movie can get new vocabularies every they

watching it. So, watching movie is effective way for them to improve listening skill.

b. Purpose

The purpose to discuss watching movie is to make the students will understand listening

the vocabulary, they can get new vocabularies and how to pronounce them well in ELT. If the

students always listen to vocabularies from the alternative media especially the movie, they

are entertained. The other hand, they get the knowledge from the movie. The movie shows the

visual and voice from the actor/actrees, so it can ease the students to comprehend ELT/L.

Movies show the good speakers and then, the student can imitate the words. Informal and

formal words also showed in the movie and the students will get many knowledge from

it.
B. CONTENT

I. Watching movie in listening class

a. Watching movie (what and how to have it + picture/example

Watching movie is the best way to improve the listening skill of students. It makes the

students can speak as foreign people. The use of movie is make the students are able to improve

their listening skill and remember about the vocabulary in the movie. Because, it is a potential

to manage the real-life situation, real emotion, how to pronounce the vocabularies in classroom.

So, the students can be the good communication each other.

Learning English through movies is very interesting. In fact, English students have many

advantages for them to regarding the other language. Western movies are better to improve their

skill because it is created in English language film. As international language, the western

movies are useful for the students in ELL.

The reason of the students watching movie in English is to hear the voice of the original

British and original movie because, if the actrees/actor and movies are not original, so the

students will not understand how to pronounce what they are talking about. Then, it isnt

interesting for the English student in learning it. After that, the students dont understand the

way to speak as the foreign people.

 The way to get movies are through the social media such as Youtube. In

Youtube, the students can choose whatever movies that lecturer have given. The students

also can get the movies from CD/DVD and Flash Disk. Then, it also can as the

homework for the students. The other side, they get the knowledge about the social media

and how to do that . So, the lecturer gives the instruction to get the movies. After that, the

students will get the way to use it and download it.

Movies can watch at home, however it is not the lesson material from the lecturer.

Whenever the students can watch and listening movie, because the movies can increase the

knowledge for the students when they are listening, they will get two points. For example,

they feel comfort and entertained, then they can get a new knowledge/information. Its more

helpful and useful for the students. So, its no matter whenever they learn that.

The students and lecturers need this media, because if the lecturers dont have it, they

arent able to teach well and explain about the material that he has given. Its too hard for

the lecturer to describe and define the way to learn English in classroom well. For the

students, they also dont understand what the material that lecturer has taught because the

media is not support the situation of the classroom in ELT/L.

 These are example pictures of the listening through watching movie in classroom.

b. How to implementation the movie in classroom listening activities (illustration of

example

In the classroom, the students use the media for the listening is watching the movie like

through Youtube ,VCD,DVD, etch. The implementation for the students are, the lecturer turn

on the movie without subtitle and give the piece of paper . After that, the lecturer give

exercise for the students to write the vocabulary from the movie. Then, the lecturer give 3

times occasion to listen it. It can assign the students skill in getting vocabularies from movie.

If they get many vocabularies, so they may be understand and able develop their ability. With

this way, the students will be focus and remember the vocabularies from the movie.

II. Conclusion and Suggestion

In conclusion, watching movie is useful for the students because the students will not

bored in learning. As modern technology, the movie is very interesting. Watching movie is

the best way to improve our listening skill, because it can show the visual and audio that ease

the students to understand it. Movies can we get from the social media, such as;

Yutube,DVD,VCD,etc. Listening the movies can do everywhere and whenever we have the time.
Especially in the classroom, to apply the listening movie is show the movie and turn on the

subtitle of movie. Then, the lecturer asks the students to write their answer on paper to test

their skill. If the students have left many vocabularies in the movies, the lecturer may repeat

the previous words of movie.

In my opinion, listening through movie is the best way and helpful for the students in

English Language Learning. But, not all of the movies are good, because if the movie related

with a bad habit or bad words, so the students will be easy to imitate the words that have

showed. For the students, we must manage our time to do the best thing in English Language

Learning. Because, it can make our way in learning get better or bad. So, in this modern era, we

must use the modern technology as can as possible we have to comprehend ELL. Then, we

can reach the goal of listening basic skill.

References

ESL Listening Exercises By Andrew Lawton

http://www.esl-galaxy.com http://www.englishmedialab.com