CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the problem

Language is an important aspects in human life. It‟s mean of communication the person to

the others. The people need language to looking for and give people benefit information.

Communication hold the most important aspect of language, listening or reading cannot occur

without communication. People need language as a communication to express their feeling,

thought and desires.

In the use of English to communicate with others the most important part is also the

mastery of vocabulary. Based on Eny Kusumawati's journal "Wilkin (1972) emphasizes the

importance of word knowledge by saying" you can communicate in a language without

grammar, but you cannot communicate without a word knowledge. From Wilkin's statement

proves that vocabulary is more important than grammar when we speak, otherwise if we write

more important is grammar. To be master in vocabulary we can do in many ways.

The importance of vocabulary is also from Nation (2001) stated that to understand a text

adequately, learners need to know at least 97% of the vocabulary within it. Learners may have

serious difficulty in understanding the message if they lack in vocabulary, word knowledge is

crucial and determines how well students will be able to comprehend the texts they read.

To improve students mastery in vocabulary need strategies, it means as specific action by the

students to make learning easier, faster, more effective. Learning strategies are possible help the
learner to study vocabulary. Commonly, students get new vocabulary by two learning strategies;

conventional and visual strategies. Conventional is the simplest strategy that is used by teacher

in vocabulary teaching. For examples; the teacher introduces the new word and give the

meaning of words.Learning process is not always in the class, learning can be done in

everywhere. Students also do not always face with the teacher to teaches vocabulary. Students

can learn at everywhere, any time. Students‟ habit to watching English movie possibly way to

enrich their vocabulary.

The habit of watching movie provide opportunities to study language about vocabulary.

Moreover, students should have a schedule for it is. In order to get new vocabularies and find

many information about grammar to help language skill. Sometimes, they also found the

problems about structure, difficult new vocabulary, based on the dialogue

Conventional is the simplest strategy that is used by teachers in teaching of vocabulary . For

examples; the teacher introduces the new words and gives the meaning of words. Another way

is by visual, the habit of students who really like to watch western films of course they need

subtitled, from there they can add their vocabulary. if they do not know the meaning to get a

sense of the story of the film they will try to find out the meaning.

According to (Arsyad , 2003; Mishan, 2004; Pascoe & Wiburg, 2003). Pascoe and Wiburg

(2003) explained that movies provide the examples of phrases and expressions used in real

contexts. Thus, students are offered authentic materials to help them differentiate between the

real world and the traditional classroom.

 Mastering vocabulary of a specific target language is essential for language learner because

the language is compounded by the words (Thornburry, 2002; Richards & Schmidt, 2001).

Krashen as cited in Alqahtani (2015) mentioned some reasons why it is needed for us to devote

more attention to vocabulary learning; vocabulary is essential for mastery a language, “second

language learners carry dictionaries with them not grammar books”, and the lack of vocabulary

has been reported as major problem in language acquisition.

B. Identification of the Problem

Based on the background of study, the identification of study:
1. The students have limited number of vocabulary
2. The English teacher not use a good media for teaching English in the class
C. Limitation of the Problem
Based on the background above, this study limited to the correlation between students‟

habit in watching Engllish movie and their vocabulary mastery in seven grade at SMP IT

Sunnan Ampel Denta.

D. Formulation of the Problem
The study is formulated as the following :“ Is there any correlation between the eight

grade students‟ habit in watching Engllish movie and their vocabulary mastery at SMP IT

Sunan Ampel Denta.

E. Objective of the Research

The objective of study is to analyze the correlation between the eight grade students‟

habit in watching English movie and their vocabulary mastery at SMP IT Sunan Ample

Denta.
F. Significance Of The Research
As the study concerns with the correlation between students‟ habit in watching English

movie and their vocabulary mastery, the finding of this study are expected that:
1. It is useful for the English teachers to improve the quality of students‟ vocabulary

and the researchers can use this study as reference for the next related study.
2. English teacher can use English Movie as teaching media to improve students‟

vocabulary mastery.