The Effectiveness of Using BBC News Video ‘Japan Incredible Shrinking Building’ As A Media to Improve Students’ Pronunciation for The Eleventh Grade Students of Accounting Class of State Vocational High School 1 Karanganyar in the Academic Year 2012/2013

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to know whether using BBC news video as a media to improve students’ pronunciation is effective or not. This research is an experimental research which is conducted for the eleventh grade students of State Vocational High School 1 Karanganyar in the academic year 2012/2013. The population of the study is eleventh grade of Accounting department as many as 120 students. The researcher took one class as a sample, that was XI Accounting 1. In collecting the data, the researcher used pre-test and post-test. While doing pre-test and post-test, the researcher gave treatment by showing the BBC news video. After getting the data needed, the researcher counted the data using t-test method. The mean of pre-test is 64.41 while the mean score of post-test is 68.72. To see whether the hypothesis was accepted or rejected, the t-test is consulted to the t-table at the 0.05 significance level. It showed that t-table is 2.02. The t-test value is 3.37. It means that t-value is higher than t-table. As the result of the research, it is effective to use BBC news video as a media to improve student’s pronunciation. Because the video is from the native speaker, so that the students can pronounce the words correctly and speak like native speakers do.

Keywords: Effectiveness, BBC news, Media, Pronunciation