USING FILMS AS MEDIA TO TEACH LITERATURE

Abstract: The objectives of the study are to find out: 1) whether or not there is a significant difference on students’ achievement between those who are taught by using films and those who are assigned to read the novels and short story. 2) students’ opinions on the implementation of using movie as a media to teach literature. This is a pre-experimental design, a non equivalent group posttest-only design, where eighty students were divided equally into two groups, control and experimental groups and both groups were not given pretest. The research was done in seven meeting including the posttest from 10 March to 28 April 2014. The result of this research showed that there was a significant difference on students’ achievement between the two groups since the t-obtained on the independent sample t-test was 6.734 with significance of 0.000. The students also showed a positive response on the implementation of this media to teach literature. Keywords: Films, Literatur