The Effectiveness of Watching Movies

The Effectiveness Of Watching Movies
For English Education Students
Andi Rifqy Wira Zaky

Uniiversitas Negeri Makassar/Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris/Bahasa Inggris
Email: rifqyzaky92@gmail.com
Abstract
This study mainly focuses on the impact of watching movies on learning English by
taking the research title "The Effectiveness Of Watching Movies For English Education
Students". The purpose of the research in this thesis is to determine the students' responses when
watching English films, to find out the enrichment of students' vocabulary by watching English
films, and to determine the relationship between students' responses when watching English
films and their vocabulary enrichment. This research was conducted using a quantitative
research approach. Data were collected from questionnaires distributed to active students of
class 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 English Language Education, Faculty of Language and
Literature, Makassar State University. The data were analyzed thematically.
The main findings of this study indicate that watching English films has a positive
impact on improving listening skills as well as speaking skills in English. Correct pronunciation
is also improved by watching English films. English films also help students to improve their
skills. vocabulary. According to experts, the impact can have a long-lasting impact on active
viewers and listeners. Those who watch movies on a regular basis, can benefit further including
understanding foreign accents from different regions. The findings also show some negative
effects of watching English films such as film addiction.
Introduction
Language is always used in human life and never releases with them. It is also used as
communication tools. It can be used in expressing the thought or ideas, giving information,
making promises, making excuses, classifying, identifying and reporting something, and human
cannot understand each other without it. It is arbitrary and it has vocabulary and rule itself that
agreed and can be understood by the people in that area because it is a result of cultural
experience. Crystal (2003: 20) states that a language can be made the official language of a
country, to be used as a medium of communication in such domains as government, the law
courts, the media, and the educational system.
Language is always used in human life and never releases with them. It is also used as
communication tools. It can be used in expressing the thought or ideas, giving information,
making promises, making excuses, classifying, identifying and reporting something, and human
cannot understand each other without it. It is arbitrary and it has vocabulary and rule itself that
agreed and can be understood by the people in that area because it is a result of cultural
experience. Crystal (2003: 20) states that a language can be made the official language of a
country, to be used as a medium of communication in such domains as government, the law
courts, the media, and the educational system.
There are many languages in the world such as Japanese, English, Arabic, etc. Nowadays,
English is a global language. For the example is in the television in which international channel
uses spoken English, when the people visit to the hotel or restaurant in abroad the waitresses use
and understand English, when they go travelling they also see English advertisement and sign.
The governments of some countries in the world obligate the students in the school to study
English, and it is one of the subjects that ought to be studied by the students in Indonesia. The
government in Indonesia also determines it as a final examination at the school, not only
elementary school and junior high school
but also senior high school. In the other hands, English is not the students’ mother tongues, so,
they have motivation to study it. It is important when the people want to work in a company,
institution etc usually using the certificate English TOEFL. It is also important for politician,
scientist, doctors, engineers, English teachers, businessmen, and research workers, because they
increase their knowledge and experiences by reading books available only in English.
Every country has a national language. The national language in Indonesia is Indonesian, it is
used to communicate all people in Indonesia who have different region cultures and languages
such as Sundanese, Javenese, Malay, Madura language and so on. The Indonesian people use
Indonesian to communicate each other. But there are some countries in this world in which have
national languages themselves and do not only use Indonesian to communicate each other. So,
English is determined as an international language so that the people in the world which have
their national language in their countries can interact and cooperate with others without
misunderstanding because of their different languages.
In Indonesia, English is foreign language. Some people are still strange when they hear of
English vocabulary especially, students do not use English so that they do not have a chance to
hear and practice so much.
Whereas the people who master English vocabulary can enjoy the best stories in novels, dramas,
magazines, newspapers etc written in English. It is also the language of international sports such
as in television EUFA EURO 2012, the comments at that event is English. And it is also the
language in the internet which consists of news, fashions, educations, tips, lifestyles, models,
cultures, and social networks from all the countries of the world. Nowadays, there are some
programs in the television which can help the Indonesian people master English vocabulary, such
as Home Stay, Dora the Explorer, Mickey Mouse and so on which can help the children master
the English vocabulary around them, and the television programs for teenagers or adult are some
movies in Box Office Movies, Big Movies, Bioskop Trans TV, which can help the people to
master the English vocabulary and learn the histories, cultures, and messages from the movie.

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