Abstract:
English is an international language. It is spoken by many people all over
the world to communicate each other, express idea, feeling and thought. In order
to understand the meaning of the language, people should know about how to
pronounce it. Nevertheless, if we can’t do it correctly as the native speakers do,
actually the communication is breakdown. In Indonesia, English is used as a
second language, due to Indonesian as the first language. So, it’s not easy to
master the pronunciations. The teacher should give more attention and suitable
media to get effective way in teaching pronunciation. The purpose of this research
is to know whether using BBC news video as a media to improve student’s
pronunciation is effective or not.
This research is an experimental research which is conducted for eleventh
grade students of State Vocational High School 1 Karanganyar in the academic
year 2012/2013. The population of the study is eleventh grade of Accounting
department as many as 120 students. The researcher took one class as a sample,
that was XI Accounting 1. The sample is 40 students. In collecting data, the
researcher used pre-test and post-test. Between doing pre-test and post-test, the
researcher gave treatment by showing the BBC news video. After getting the data
needed, the researcher counted the data using t-test method. The mean of pre-test
is 64.41. While the mean score of post-test is 68.72. To see whether the
hypothesis was accepted or rejected, the t-test is consulted to the t-table at the 0.05
significance level. It showed that t-table is 2.02. The t-test value is 3.37. It means
that t-value is higher than t-table.
As the result of the research, it is effective to use BBC news video as a
media to improve student’s pronunciation. Because the video is from the native
speaker, that the students can pronounce the words correctly. It is suggested for
the teacher to use BBC news in the classroom to give example in good
pronunciation, so the students can speak like native speakers do.
