Using English Movie as an Attractive Strategy to Teach Senior High School Students English as A Foreign Language

The major purpose of this paper is to reveal how to implement English movies in teaching English as foreign Language to senior high school students. English as Foreign Language is implemented as the compulsory subject to learn in senior high school in Indonesia. Unfortunately, beyond the implementation, the fact that not all pupils enjoy learning English occurs. Realizing that fact, teacher should find a strategy to attract students’ attention to learn EFL. Moreover, using English movies to teach English can be the answer. In the application, teacher can use English movies to teach four skills. They include listening, speaking, and also writing skills. By using English movies, teacher can also teach grammar and introduce new vocabulary to students. Furthermore, the belief that everyone loves watching movies strengthens the teacher’s confidence to use English movies as an attractive strategy to teach English as a Foreign Language to senior high school Students.


A. INTRODUCTION
English as a Foreign Language is implemented as the compulsory subject to learn in senior high school in Indonesia.The aim of the implementation is to achieve the informational level of literacy which expects students to be able to use English to access accumulated knowledge and use English in informal and formal contexts.
Unfortunately, beyond the implementation, the fact that not all pupils enjoy learning English occurs.Besides learning a new language, the existing teaching method which merely transfer knowledge takes part in forming the stressful environment to students.Considering the boredom atmosphere experienced by students during the teaching and learning process, the knowledge cannot be received effectively.Moreover, the goal of the teaching and learning process will not be achieved.
To answer this problem, senior high school teacher is expected to find a creative strategy to apply in the teaching and learning process.Teacher is challenged to be able to apply an attractive strategy in his/her English class.There are some ways to make an attractive teaching and learning process.Teacher can use flash cards and English songs to teach and involve students to learn English.However, there is another fun strategy to implement in teaching English to senior high school Students in Indonesia, namely through using English movies.
By using English movies to teach English, teacher does not only facilitate a visual or audio aid to students, but teacher also facilitates them with both audio and visual elements at the same time.Besides, teacher can use a movie to teach students several skills including listening, speaking and writing.Other benefits in implementing English movies in teaching and learning process can also be gained.In addition, the belief that everyone loves watching movie strengthens the teacher's confidence to use English movies as an attractive strategy to teach English as a Foreign Language to senior high school Students.
An inappropriate strategy implemented in teaching English as a Foreign Language to senior high school students often comes as a problem.The teacher-centered way of teaching which usually occurs in class in which teacher merely transfers knowledge without considering senior high schoolstudents' attention span is ineffective.The following assignments or quizzes make them bored during the teaching and learning process.The boring environment experienced by senior high school students, therefore, contributes to the level of success students experience in learning.
It was explained earlier that English movies facilitates teacher to teach several skills at the same time, including listening, speaking, and writing, and also provides enjoyable learning environment in learning grammar and vocabulary.Therefore the major focus on this paper is how to implement English movies in teaching English as a foreign Language to senior high school students.
Considering the importance of an attractive strategy to teach senior high school students, this paper intends to address a question: How are English movies implemented to teach English as a foreign language to senior high school students?
This paper is aimed at providing information about how English movies are used as an attractive strategy to teach English as a Foreign Language to senior high school students.This strategy of using English movies for teaching and learning activity also considers about its benefit.Therefore, this paper also states the benefits of using English movie as an attractive teaching and learning strategy.

B. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
As stated by Agustin in her paper entitled Competence, Process, and Assessment Standards: Towards autonomy in ELT, there are four literacy levels implemented in Curriculum Based Competence.They are performative, functional, informational, and epistemic level.Performative level is implemented in Elementary School, whereas functional level is applied in Junior High School.She goes on to say that informational level is implemented in Senior high school whereas epistemic level is applied in University.
Since this paper focuses on the Senior high school, therefore informational level as the literacy level implemented in Senior high school will be discussed in depth.According to Agustin, in the informational level, learners are expected to: • use English to access accumulated knowledge.• use English in informal and formal contexts.By considering the goal to achieve in teaching Senior high school students, teacher should be able to apply appropriate techniques and strategy.However, it is not an easy job for teachers.Besides focusing on the goal to reach, teachers should also pay attention to their students.As an example, teacher should be able to comprehend the characteristics of Senior high school students.By understanding the characteristics of students, teacher can maximize the success of teaching and learning process.As cited in www.ierg.net,Senior high schoolstudents generally have some characteristics, such as: • They are interested in learning activities • They need opportunities for selfexpression • They want to take individual responsibility for learning and progress towards targets Using English Movie as an Attractive Strategy to Teach Senior High School Students ....
• They have attention span between eight to fourteen minutes.
Understanding the goal to achieve in Senior high school grade and general characteristics of the students, teacher can start to find, choose and apply an appropriate strategy to apply in teaching EFL to Senior high school students.One strategy that can be implemented in teaching EFL to Senior high school students is by using English movies.According to Louis Pugliese, a lecturer in Educational Psychology California State University, Northridge, movie is an exiting way to learn English, since it gives not only the matter of pronunciation, but also a lot of other unspoken parts of English language.

C. DISCUSSION 1. The Implementation of English Movie in Class Activity
To conduct an attractive English teaching and learning process for Senior high school students, teacher can use English movie.In the implementation, before teacher starts conducting teaching and learning activity by using western movie, there are some points to consider.The points are: • First, teacher should consider the audience of English movie.Since the audiences of the movie are Senior high school Students, teacher is expected to choose the movie which is appropriate to watch.Directly, it insists teacher to watch first the movie for making sure whether the movie is suitable for students or not.In the application, teacher can use English movies to teach four skills.They include listening, speaking, and also writing skill.By using English movie, teacher can also teach grammar and introduce new vocabulary for students.

a. Listening Skill
Since it is obviously seen that movie can produce audio elements, teacher can use English movie to teach Senior high school students listening skill.Moreover, in the implementation, teacher can divide class activity into three parts.They are pre-watching, while-watching, and postwatching.In pre-watching, teacher can ask students whether they have already known the movie or issues related to the movie they will watch.After doing the pre-watching, teacher can play the movie in the while-watching part.After watching the movie, teacher can post students worksheets containing some questions which are related to the movie.Furthermore, the implementation of those three parts can be seen in the following example: As the follow-up activity, teacher can ask some groups to perform the dialogues in front of the class.In responding to the performances, it is possible for the teacher to give several feedbacks in the students' pronunciation or diction.
In spite of the activity mentioned above, teacher can use English movies to teach some common expressions used in English, such as expressing happiness and sympathy.What teacher can do is choose and play certain scene showing any expressions of happiness or sympathy.Then, teacher can ask students to find the expressions of happiness or sympathy as many as possible in the scene.After that, based on the expressions they got, students can work in pair and make a short conversation.

c. Writing skill
By using English movies, teacher can also teach writing skill.In writing skill, teacher still can implement the same movie like in speaking skill, which is Mr. Bean in Room 426 Part 1. Teacher can also implement same activities of pre-teaching and whilst-teaching such as in speaking skill.However, in the postwatching, students can have different assignment to do.For example, each student has to construct writing as the summary of Mr. Bean in Room 426 Part 1 movie.If time is limited for students to accomplish it, then they can continue writing at home based on the notes they took while watching the movie.
As the follow-up activity, students can work in pair and do peer-editing in order to check the correctness of grammar, diction, spelling and other minimum requirements in writing.

d. Grammar
It is obviously seen that by using English movies, teacher can teach listening, speaking and writing skill.Nevertheless, in spite of those three skills, teacher can also use English movies to teach grammar.For Senior high school students, learning English grammar has its own challenge.Since there are many grammar rules to remember, students often experience stress.In addition, grammar teaching which focuses only on the grammar theory and exercises will rob the students of the chance to have fun grammar learning.
The stressful environment, therefore, influences negatively on their successto receive the lesson.Students who are already in stressful and boredom environment will not be easy to receive the lesson.If they are bored, unconsciously, they will refuse the lesson.Then, they will ignore the lesson and prefer to do an activity they like, such as falling asleep in the middle of lesson, chit-chatting with friends, or even skipping the class.Realizing that fact, teacher should find a strategy to attract students' attention to learn grammar.Moreover, using English movies to teach English grammar can be the answer.
Still using the same movie like in speaking and writing skill, Mr. Bean in Room 426 Part 1, teacher can teach sentences using 'going to'.What teacher needs to do is playing the movie and before another event comes in the scene, teacher can pause the movie and ask, "What is Mr. Bean going to do?"Then, teacher can lead a class discussion based on it.Besides teacher can also teach tenses such as present continuous by using English movies.For example, after several times, teacher pauses the movie and ask to students, "What is Mr. Bean doing?"Following the question, teacher can start to teach present continuous based on the movie, for example by producing the sentence: "Mr.Bean is driving on his yellow car" and after that analyzing the structure of sentence.

e. New vocabulary
Implementing English movies in teaching English as a Foreign Language to Senior high school students can also improve students' vocabulary.Students not only get fun learning environment, but they also get new vocabulary from the movie they watch.
Teacher can conduct teaching vocabulary by playing English movies without showing the Indonesian subtitle.Teacher can also ask students to write strange words in the movie for them.After watching the movie, teacher can ask some students to share what new words they learned from the movie.Following the activity, and as the individual task, teacher asks students to find the Indonesian meaning of the new words.
However, in the implementation, teacher can also make word specification in teaching vocabulary.For example, teacher can use movie entitled Groundhog Day.The main character in the movie, Phil Connors, works as a meteorologist.Based on the information from the movie, teacher can ask students, "What is Phil Connors' profession?"After that, teacher can begin to introduce other professions.

f. Advantages
Using English movies can be an attractive strategy to teach English as a Foreign Language to Senior high school students.It can be used to teach listening, speaking and writing skill.Besides, it provides fun learning environment to teach grammar and vocabulary to students.In the application, there are some other benefits to gain.They are:

C. CONCLUSION
English as a Foreign Language is implemented as the compulsory subject to learn in senior high schoolsin Indonesia.The aim of the implementation is to achieve the informational level of literacy which is expected from students to be able to use English to access accumulated knowledge and use English in informal and formal contexts.
Unfortunately, beyond the implementation, the fact that not all pupils enjoy learning English occurs.Besides the students should face a new language for them to learn, the existing teaching style which merely transfers knowledge contributes to the stressful environment in class.The classroom environment contributes to the success of students' understanding of the lessons.It will not be easy for students who are in a stressful and boring environment to comprehend the lesson.If they are bored, unconsciously, they will resist any lesson.
Realizing that fact, teacher should find a strategy to attract students' attention to learn EFL, for example by using English movies.Moreover, using English movies to teach English is fun.In the application, teacher can use English movies to teach four language skills.They include reading, listening, speaking, and also writing skills.By using English movies, teacher can also teach grammar and introduce new vocabulary to students.Furthermore, the belief that everyone loves watching movies strengthens the teacher's confidence to use English movies as an attractive strategy to teach English as a Foreign Language to senior high schoolstudents.

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The limited facilities in school can also pose an obstacle in teaching EFL using movies.If school has an English laboratory, then teacher can play the movie in the lab.However, if the school does not have an LCD or big screen TV, it is almost impossible to play the movie in the class.In addition, the activity might disturb the teaching and learning process of other classes.