THE USE OF FINDING NEMO MOVIE TO IMPROVE VOCABULARY MASTERY OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP N 17 SEMARANG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2023/2024

Nur Zulaihah, Siti. 2024. The Use Finding Nemo Movie To Improve vocabulary
Mastery: A case of Seventh Grade Students at SMP N 37 Semarang. Final Project,
English Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education,
Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Dr. Jafar Sodiq, S.Pd., M.Pd.. Advisor II:
Dr. Arso Setyaji, S.Pd., M.Hum.
Keywords: Vocabulary mastery, Finding nemo movie, Teaching methodologies
The major purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the Finding Nemo
Movie As a media Technique approach to improving vocabulary ability. This study
is a quantitative and pre-experimental design. In detail, the purpose is; 1) to find out
the improvement of the students' vocabulary ability in 7th grade of SMP N 17
Semarang before using Finding Nemo Movie As a Media Technique. 2) to find out
the improvement of the students'vocabulary ability at 7th grade of SMP N 17
Semarang after using using finding nemo movie as a media technique. 3) to find
out the significant difference between students' vocabulary ability before and after
using Finding Nemo movies as a media technique. The sample of this study was 30
seventh-grade students. The findings revealed that post-test scores grew and
surpassed pre-test values. The mean pre-test of the students was 62.00, and the mean
post-test score of students in the experimental group was 78.00. Furthermore, at a
level of significance of 0.05%, the t-score is considered to be less than t-table. The
alternative Hypothesis (Ha) was accepted, the Null Hypothesis (Ho) was rejected.
Based on this analysis, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference
between students' listening comprehension taught by cloze dictation technique.