A Study of Military Jargons Found in Film Entitled Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia Directed by Tim Matheson and The Implementation in English Language Teaching

Abstract

Language has a lot of varieties which is caused by the diversity of the speaker in an environment. One of the ways to learn the variation of language is watching film. One of the language varieties is jargon. Jargon means the specialized vocabulary that is used in particular group, usually formal, characterized by the usage of terms which are unfamiliar to most people. We can understand and know about vocabulary used in an occupation field especially military field, which can be found on film Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia Directed by Tim Matheson. The objectives of this thesis are to analyze military jargon found in film Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia and the implementation in English Language Teaching. The jargon can be acronym, abbreviation, slang and colloquial which are difficult to understand for most people who are not the member of military field. This research is a qualitative research which does not use statistical procedure, and there is not treatment like in experimental research. The data is collected in the form of words, not in form of numbers. The technique is by taking the data found in the movie starts from watching the movie, quoting, identifying, classifying, and selecting the data related to the military jargon and then searching for reference related to the subject matter. The researcher uses the library approach in writing this thesis, using many resources including books and internet to support the data. And the main data is Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia movie. The result of this study shows that there are 63 military jargons used in the film. The researcher finds 45 lexical meanings and 51 contextual meanings of military jargon found on film Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia. The military jargon can be implemented in English Language Teaching especially in Sociolinguistics study by using a learning strategy namely: exploration, elaboration, and confirmation The researcher hopes that this thesis will give contribution and opportunity for the readers. She also hopes that this thesis can improve vocabulary, knowledge and students motivation in English Language Teaching especially in Sociolinguistics Teaching.