The use of standard and bimodal subtitles to facilitate Students' Vocabulary Development

Vocabulary is the basis aspect in teaching language. Students will be able to communicate and understand the text when they know the word or meaning. However, most of the sudents have difficulties in understanding the meaning of the words, as they are lazy to memorize, and have lack of motivation. To overcome this problem the teacher needs suitable media for learning vocabulary such as watching with subtitle namely standard and bimodal. By watching movie with subtitle, the students can understand the contents of the story and enjoy the movie. This study aimed to examine how does the teacher use standard and bimodal subtitles to facilitate students’ vocabulary development and the students responses toward the use of standard and bimodal subtitle of movie. The method used in this study was qualitative method. The data were collected through observation and questionnaire. The participant of of this study is the students of IX grade SMP Ta’miriyah Surabaya. The result of the study showed that in implementing standard subtitle, the teacher gave brainstorming such giving some question related to the material, showed the video with the title “Salad”, gave exercise, asked the students to arrange the short story based on the video. While in implementing bimodal subtitle, the teacher reviewed the students about the last material, gave pre-reading activity, showed the video entitle “The Lazy Donkey”, gave exercise, and also asked students to arrange the short story based on the video. Besides, concerning about the students’ response toward the use of standard and bimodal subtitle, the majority of students prefer to use standard subtitle because standard subtitle use indonesian language, increase their vocabulary, and easy to understand the story of the movie.