The Advantages of watching movie to increase the student ability in English

 

           English is difficult lesson for some students in Indonesia. It is because English has totally different vocabulary and pronunciation from Indonesian language and English is more difficult than Indonesian language to learn, but English is an International language that we must know about this language for doing the communication with each other from foreign that we don’t know their language.

There are four basic skill in English which must master by the student who learn English like; vocabulary, listening, speaking, writing, and reading. Actually, there are several ways to learn English easily. One of the ways is by watching English movies. In fact, there are several advantages of watching English movies in increasing English skills for students such as increasing vocabulary, pronunciation, and listening skills.

          The first advantage of watching English movies for students is improving the ability of students in vocabulary skill. It is because English movies in Indonesia usually have subtitles in Indonesian language. Kinds of movie here is western movie that used an English language absolutely for their communication on the movie or another movie that used English language in their communication, for example such as; the avengers, jack kie chan, warrior, aeron man, etc. Beside that there are many cartoon movie that produced by dream theater and disney film such tom and jery, popeye, up, tin – tin reporter etc. Firstly, students stand a chance of hearing all the vocabulary students know. When the students do not understand meaning of one word, students can see the meaning in the subtitle and that will help the student to know, what the actors said. As the result, the familiarly used words category in student’s brain will increase. 

             The second advantage that students will get by watching English movies is students will be better in pronouncing words in English.  It is because when watching an English movie, students will hear the true pronunciation of a word from actors or actress. The pronunciation that told directly by actor in the movie will give the good effect for the student to know about the original pronunciation and it’s like native speaker. After hearing the true pronunciation of a word that told by actor in the movie, students can practice by imitating the spoken of actors or actress whenever and wherever the places, so it will train for student to say the appropriate pronunciation. From that, students can improve their ability in pronunciation by their self. 

               The third advantage of watching English movie is improving the ability in listening skill. When watching English movies students usually will hear the actors and actress spoken English in different accent, tone, and style. It means students can be stumped by someone saying the same things, but with a different accent, or tone. It is the third advantage of watching English movies for students. On English movies, students get to hear a huge variety of regional accents, which after a time, almost automatically raises student’s ability to comprehend language when it is spoken by someone whose accent is unfamiliar. So with heard about the voice from the actor in the movie, the student ability can improve by self because they will know the words and how to pronounce those words. With the result, student will be better in listening skills.

                

In simple terms, by watching English movies, students will remember the words more easily because movie included an interesting media that the student can’t avoid that for going to get something and thus be able to recognize it when it is spoken and probably be able to use it correctly too. The student knows the words and how to pronounce those words with correct pronunciation. The student also gets the new vocabulary or expression sentence from the movie that they watched. It means it can help students in increasing their ability in vocabulary, pronunciation and listening skills so students will be better in their English lesson.