Learning English Through Cartoon Movie

for Children Is Benefitial

English is an international language. In Indonesia, it taught to students from middle school

untill university. Contrast with another nation such as Malaysia where English is their second
language, the enviroment in indonesia does not support us to practice and learn the language from
around us. Therefore, a variety of new methods and thecnique emerge that can help us to learn
English easier.Tecaching methods consist of the principles and methods used for instruction.
According to Edward M. Anthony (in H. Allen and Robert, 1972) the term method in learning meant
that overall planning to pay for language teaching materials on a regular basis. Whereas according to
Salamun (2002), learning methods are different ways to achieve different learning outcomes under
different conditions. So, we can conclude that learning methods are ways for overall planning in
presenting the learning materials covered in different learning results under different conditions. In
this case, cartoon includes to the thing that aids in the learning process. Opinions on wether using
cartoon to learn english must be considered in indonesia are devided. Some people believe that
applying cartoon movie to learn english will be benefitial, while other is not. However this essay will
argue that learning through cartoon is benefitial for several reason: watching cartoon movie can
improve student’s reading and listening comprehension, cartoon movie triggered children to
immitate the character’s language and act, and the last one is learning through cartoon can
eliminate the monotonly and feeling of boring in learning.

Firstly, the use of cartoon movie can help children to improve their listening and reading
comprehension(Gustian, 2016). As all we know, there are several types of learner e.g visual,auditory,
and kinesthetic. Cartoon movie contains video, sounds/musics, and subtitle that possible students to
enjoy the movie and learn at the same time. Visual and auditory student will be very suitable to
learn from it. Is cartoon movie only stuitabe for visual and auditory student? How about kinesthetic
student?. Kinesthetic student can also learn by watching cartoon movie, it triggers children to do as
they instruct, “Blue’s Clues & You” for instance. The cartoon movie contains the activity of human
and dogs, the movie has interaction between the actor and the audience. For exaple, “can you tell
me where is blues? Help me to touch ear!”. From this example, we can conclude that Blue’s Clues &
You cartoon movie is suitable with kinesthetic children to learn with the cartoon movie.

Secondly, cartoon movie triggered children to immitate the character’s language and act.
Childhood is a time when children will imitate everything they see(Soerjono Seokanto,2009). Based
on these statements, it can be said that cartoon movie is a place for children to learn languages and
also learn how to behave well. Beause when childrean are watching cartoon movie, they will
immediately imitate the action and the conversation doing by the actors. Thats why many of cartoon
movie such as We Love Papa Pig and Blue’s Clues & You can be a good media choice for teaching
children.

Finnaly, cartoon movie can help to remove the monotonly and feeling of boring in learning.
Now-a-days, learning is often seen as a serious and stressful activity. We often hear learners
complaining about boring classes and activities. Using cartoons would certainly break the monotony
(Rae, 2000). In learning English grammar for instance, we learn about formulas and rules everyday
and that can make the the learner feel boring. Cartoon movie is an alternative way to teach an it will
remove the feeling of boring and break monotonly in learning.
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- Gustian Pelani, 2016, the Effect of Subtitled Animated Videos on Students’ Reading
Comprehension, Experimental Study at SDIT Al-Hasanah, Kota Bengkulu.