The Analysis of Idiomatic Expressions in Dead Poets Society Movie and Its Application in Teaching Speaking at the Tenth Grade of Senior High School

Abstract

Language is an important tool for communication. Without language, people cannot communicate to each other. In language itself, there are so many variations; one of them is idiomatic expression. Idiomatic expression is fixed combinations of words whose meaning is often difficult to guess from the meaning of each individual word. The purpose of the study is to identify the types of idiomatic expressions found in the Dead Poets Society movie and to describe the application of idiomatic expressions found in the Dead Poets Society movie in teaching speaking. The research design of the study is qualitative research. The data form is English idiomatic expression found in Dead Poets Society movie. It was collected by finding the movie, watching the movie, downloading the script, reading the script, then collecting the idiomatic expression from characters’ conversation in movie. After the data collected, the researcher analyzed the data based on its type. From the research, the researcher found the types of idiomatic expression in Dead Poets Society movie are as follows: similes type is 5.83%, binomials type is 4.85%, proverbs type is 3.88%, euphemisms type is 0.97%, clichés and fixed statements type is 83.50%, and other languages type is 0.97%. From those data, it is concluded that the most dominant idiomatic expression type found in Dead Poets Society movie is clichés and fixed statements type. The application of idiomatic expression in Dead Poets Society movie in teaching learning is to teach speaking of narrative text in tenth grade of Senior High School.