by Tri Lestari
TEACHING SIMPLE PRESENT
TENSE IN GRADE 7th USING MOVIE?
Tri Lestari
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Abstract
Using media and technology in
learning process is the major phenomenon in this world because of its function.
The main reason why English language teacher always search the different way to
learn is because of this impact. One of the interesting media for teaching is
using movie. The movie can motivate the junior students by its story and they
will love it. The benefit of the movie is increasing their critical thinking
skill and build-up their knowledge.
1.
INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, English become
popular language in this world because of its function and many people want to
learn it. All of the people beneath the sun knowing what English are although
they are in outlying places. From the children, teenagers, adult, and all part
of people would like to learn English especially for communication. In
addition, Indonesian students must studying English since it becomes obligation
subject from their junior grade.
Studying English is not
easy for junior high students from foreign country of English such as in this
country. There are many problems why studying English is hard. Few of problems
are about grammatical and vocabulary which must be learned all of the students.
There is a major trouble in the seventh grade or grade one of junior students;
they are difficult receive the material about grammar like tenses. They usually
forget the rule how to write in English form. Harmer (2007) stated when students
study the structure of the language, they will do it because it is new to them
and they want to understand and do not make a mistake. Hence it is need some
strategies to make them easier and more interesting in learning process. One of
strategies which can be used for learning English is movie. Using movie can
hinder all students’ problem when they are learning English such as bad grammar
and communication. Movie also can exchange their mood an account of its visual
and sound information (Steward, 2006). It shows that movie can be used for
teaching in junior students, but can it use for teaching grammar?
Movie may be used in
learning process because it has many benefits for the learner, such as
increasing learners’ motivation and showing the real conversation with the real
event. From the movie, students will know how they should say in the present
time. The more benefit is that junior students will enjoy studying when they
are in the puberty period.
After this strategy is
found, it should be applied in the classroom although not all the class using
it. This is just strategy to make the students easy in learning English and
they can remember without memorizing the form of the tenses. Thus they can
teach the other sans opening their book
2.
LITERATURE
REVIEW
2.1 Theories of Movie
Braudy and Cohen (2009) stated that movie
or film constitutes a language, a “visual esperanto” because it shows
communication and brings meaning. It also produces grammar, vocabulary or even
jargons. It indicates that movie consist of language which can be learned by
the students even if do not materialized because the learning is implicit. There
are a lot of materials available in a movie which can be studied by the
students. Hence language (especially English) will be known in the whole world
and easy to catch it.
In other hand, Jacobs (n.d)
demonstrated that deeper meaning of movie is to show the plot and telling what
happen in the meantime. It expresses how the people say to the other in the
some event to make them understand. To make the other understand is not simple,
but there are some rules to communicate with each other’s that can be found in
a movie. Watching movie can improve students’ imagination and they can increase
their critical thinking of anything that they found.
From those theories, there is
conclusion that movie has numerous advantages for learning process, especially
learning English. There are rules for communication and story to improve
students’ motivation in a simple movie. In complicated movie, there are many materials
such as present tense, past tense, vocabulary and the other else which can be
used in studying activities.
2.2 Theory of Simple Present Tense
Cakir (2011) said that grammar is
conceptual in the mind, but become concrete when it is used. In addition, it is
the study about grammatical competence which brings people to know about
language. Understanding grammatical rules of language make people easier to
study its language because the structure is the key. After they know the key,
they can use and apply the language in every place.
2.3 Theory of Seventh Grade Students
Seventh grade student is the learner
who has curious character and willing to learn something. They are also
independent child, because they focused on themselves and beginning to think
critically (Pennington, 2009). If they have motivation to learn something, they
will try and find the material related to the topic, and they can be stopped
before they get what they want.
3.
DISCUSSION
Seventh grade students are the first learner in the
junior high school who has to study about Basic English grammar. They have to
know how to explain some event in the past, describing a thing, or saying what
they just do right now. Teachers should explain to them about some tenses which
expound those situations. There are so many rules to make clear it, but one of
the interesting ways is using English movie.
Using English movie to teach simple present tense can
be effective because the movie consist of many conversations using it tense. These
are some part when movie is used in learning process.
The first time, the teacher should know the students’
motivation in learning English by observes them in some meetings. What kind of
expectation which they in and what their motivation of studying it. From this observation,
the teacher knows who the students are and what their need. The teacher also
identifies what the problem of the students.
After doing observation, the teacher searches the
suitable movie for the lesson. She should find the appropriate movie based on
the students’ need and the material which will be delivered. The film would be
interesting, so the students will like it.
The next is using the movie in the learning process. The
teacher shows a movie to the learners and they have to pay attention to the
movie. Then the teacher asks to them what they get from it, they have to
explain using present time. The teacher also asks what the actress do or ask
them to describe the people inside the film.
In the last, the teacher gives comment to the
activities in the class and gives evaluation. She explains what the function of
its movie and what they get from it. She also directly corrects the students’
work if there is mistake by orally saying or by asks the others students.
REFERENCES
Steward,
David M. (2006). Film
English: Using Films to Teach English: Electronic Journal
of English Education. Retrieved from http://ejee.ncu.edu.tw/articles.asp?period=24&flag=24
Braudy,
Leo & Cohen, Marshall (2009). Film Theory and Criticism Introductory
Readings (7th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press
Jacobs,
Christoper P. (n.d) Film Theory and Approaches to Criticism, or, What did that
movie mean? Retrieved from http://und.edu/faculty/christopher-jacobs/_files/docs/theory-and-analysis.pdf
Cakir,
Ismail (2011). Problem in Teaching Tenses to Turkish Learners: Theory and Practice in Language Studies. doi:10.4304/tpls.1.2.123-127
