The Effect of Applying Eclectic Method Assisted By Video Tutorial on the Students’ Pronunciation Achievement

Abstract

The research was carried out to 1) find out the effect of applying eclectic method assisted by video tutorial on the students’ pronunciation achievement, 2) find out the difficulties on students’ pronunciation by applying eclectic method. This research has been conducted at SMA GAJAH MADA MEDAN, at Jalan HM Said No. 69, Kecamatan Medan Timur. The populations of this research were tenth grade students’ of SMA GAJAH MADA MEDAN academic year 2017/2018. There was two classes in this school with total number 49 students and all of the students were taken as the sample. They were 25 students from X-IPA as experimental group which taught by eclectic method and 24 students from class X-IPS as control group taught by direct method. The instrument of collecting the data in this research was oral test where students were asked to pronounce 20 words English. The result showed that tobserved was > ttable 3,74 > 2, 01 at level of significant 0,05 and degree of freedom (df) is 47. It means that students were taught by applying eclectic method is higher than applying direct method. Based on the finding above, it can be said the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. In other word “ there is a significant effect of applying eclectic method assisted by video tutorial o the students’ pronunciation”. Besides that, it was also found some difficulties that students got confused to make different between sound à:and :.