Vol 11 No 1 (2017): ICT Integration in The Classroom

Abstract

This research is aimed to find out the effects of using Sparkol Videoscribe in English teaching and learning: (1) to find out whether the English class will be more interesting and enjoyable by using the application, (2) to find out whether this application can increase students’ interest in studying English, and (3) to find out whether students’ achievement can be increased through the usage of this application in the class.

This research is a classroom action research which consists of 3 cycles. The instruments used are questioners, interview, and questions for pre-test and post-test. The research was conducted in SMK N 2 Wonosari with 16 students of Komputer Jaringan Department (KJ) as the subjects. Students’ interest and students’ achievement are the objects to be analyzed. This research was held on the fifth semester of 2016/2017, on August to October, 2016.

The result shows that: 1) English teaching and learning becomes more interesting and enjoyable with the use of sparkol videoscribe; 2) sparkol videoscribe can be used to increase students’ interest to study English; and 3) students’ achievement can be increased with the use of sparkol videoscribe. The use of
sparkol videoscribe can also give significant increase to the students’ cognitive achievement. From the data, it is found that on topic of attention, students’ average score is increased from 50.89 to 95.63; on the topic of application letters, it is increased from 44.92 to 88.13; meanwhile on the topic of caption, it is
increased from 62.5 to 93.75. This shows a significant result on students’ cognitive achievement.