The Effect of Using English Videos on Vocabulary Achievement at the Fifth Grade of Elementary School 10 Poasia

Abstract

Vocabulary is often regarded as the foundation of four main skills of English; listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It is important to look for the ways how teaching vocabulary can be effective and integrated into those skills. This study aims at finding out the effect of using English videos on vocabulary achievement at the fifth grade of Elementary School 10 Poasia. It used quasi experimental design which involved two classes; experimental and control class. By using purposive sampling technique, the sample was second semester students class V.A as experimental class and class V.B as control class. Both classes consisted of 28 students. The instrument of this study was vocabulary test that consisted of 21 numbers of questions and used SPSS 16 to analyze the data. The result shows that there is a significant effect of using English videos on students' vocabulary achievement. It is proven by descriptive analysis in which students' mean score of experimental class was 39.3 in pretest and 77.7 in posttest, meanwhile students' mean score of control class was 33.9 for pretest and 56.1 for posttest. Furthermore, the result of hypothesis testing showed that the value of Sig (2-tailed) was 0.001 which smaller than 0.05, means that H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. Therefore, it can be inferred that there is a significant effect of using English videos on students' vocabulary achievement.