Improving Vocabulary Acquistion through Gogo’s Movie in Classroom Setting for Islamic Boarding School Students

Abstract

Currently, learning English is essential for improving comprehensive literacy, including in Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia. English researchers and teachers are now faced with the difficulty of determining the effective learning strategies. One of the most effective learning strategies to consider is learning through movies. This study aims at improving vocabulary acquisition through Gogo’s movie in classroom setting for Islamic boarding schools students. Classroom Action Research (CAR) was employed since the researcher focused more on useful procedures in addressing students’ lacking vocabulary acquisition in Islamic boarding schools. The CAR consists of 2 cycles, and each cycle consist of 3 meetings. The subject of this research was 14 first year (1st grade of junior high school) students of 4 Islamic boarding schools in Kediri City, Indonesia. The researcher collected the data used observation and test, and analyzed data by qualitative approach through evaluation and quantitative approach through observation. The quantitative data was measured from students’ accuracy included students’ answers classified into complete and incomplete options. At cycle 1, the results’ meetings were inadequate and the target was not achieved. After employing some actions, the data showed a significant improvement at the cycle 2 and target in this cycle was achieved. By this result, a group of 16 individuals have good vocabulary acquisition through Gogo’s Movie. Thus, the researcher concluded that improving vocabulary acquisition through Gogo’s movie in classroom setting for Islamic boarding school students was achieved.