Analyzing the vocabulary tiers on POC English YouTube shorts

Vocabulary is the most basic aspect to master four skills in English. The fact, there are still a lot of students' vocabulary that is still low at various ability levels. So, it needs additional approaches or strategies in teaching vocabulary. One strategy that can be used is to teach vocabulary with a vocabulary tier. Vocabulary tiers or vocabulary levels can help students and teachers in grouping vocabulary into several levels. The tier of vocabulary is critical in learning language because understanding vocabulary tiers makes learning vocabulary easier. When teaching vocabulary, vocabulary tiers aid in the word organization and focus. In addition to the vocabulary tiers strategy, can also use existing technological media such as YouTube shorts that provide videos about vocabulary. One of the channels that can be used is POC English. This paper conducts research on five vocabulary videos taught by the POC English YouTube channel. This research was conducted using the content analysis method in which the data is presented in a descriptive qualitative design. The results of the study stated that there were two vocabulary tiers used in the five vocabulary content videos taught by POC English.