THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING BBC NEWS VIDEO ‘JAPAN INCREDIBLE SHRINKING BUILDING’ AS A MEDIA TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION FOR THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF ACCOUNTING CLASS OF STATE VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 1 KARANGANYAR IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

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.