BOOSTING VOCABULARY MASTERY THROUGH ENGLISH SHORT MOVIES

Abstract

The use of media in teaching and learning English has received a lot of attention from educators and second/foreign language teachers. Media use includes movies, music, movies, and other types of entertainment-related learning resources.  Movies or short movies is one of teaching media that make students can learn through audio and visual. This quantitative research study the implementation of English short movies to teach vocabulary for students. This research focused on the implementation of English short movies in teaching and  learning process to increase students’ vocabulary mastery. The study’s results indicated that students’ vocabulary mastery before taught using English short movies was in fair category. Findings also revealed that students vocabulary mastery after taught using English short movies was in good category. From the study’s results before, it means that there is improvement of students’ vocabulary mastery before and after taught using English short movies.