THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CARTOON VIDEO TO IMPROVE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CARTOON VIDEO TO IMPROVE THE EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENTS’ PRONUNCIATION SKILL AT SMP NEGERI 12 DENPASAR

Abstract

Pronunciation is one of the essential nouns that are based on oral and basic forms skill to speak English and other languages. Learning English pronunciation can help students to pronounce words and sentences correctly. Clear pronunciation makes it easy for students to understand and produce intelligible sounds, therefore pronunciation learning has become an important aspect in teaching. This research used the Classroom Action Research (CAR) methodology. The result showed that the best implementation of cartoon videos was proven to improve students’ pronunciation skills. In order to achieve the best implementation of cartoon video to improve students’ pronunciation skill, there were three factors that must be considered: Learning system, speech rate, and the students’ frequency in practicing pronunciation. Besides, the findings also showed that most of the students had a positive perception of the use of cartoon videos in learning pronunciation. Most of the students felt helped in learning pronunciation using cartoon videos. They also felt more interested and motivated in pronunciation learning process. Therefore, it can be concluded that the cartoon videos was the suitable media to teach pronunciaciton and had been proven to improve students’ pronunciation skills through its best implementation.