Conversational Videos to Improve Students’ Pronunciation for Second Grade of Junior High School

Abstract

The objectives of this study are to explain whether the use of conversational videos to improves students’ pronunciation for second grade of junior high school. This study is quasi-experimental research using quantitative data. The quantitative data were collected through tests. The subject of this study is the second-grade students of SMP Negeri 5 Jepara in the Academic Year of 2020/2021. There are two groups in this study, VIII B as the experimental group was taught by using conversational videos, and VIII C as the control group was taught without using conversational videos, in each group, there are 32 students. The result of this study shows that the mean score of the experimental group pre-test is 70.13, and the control group is 62.66. After both groups received the different treatments, the mean post-test score of both groups increased. The mean score of experimental group post-test is 88.62, and the control group is 64.75. After conducting the study, the researcher found that there was a significant difference of the score between the students who were taught by using conversational videos, and the students who were taught without using conversational videos. The researcher suggests using Conversational Videos as an alternative media to teach pronunciation because conversational videos contain communication between native speakers and had lots of benefits that could take.