After the pre-test was conducted, the participants were involved in four sessions of classroom teaching as part of the intervention. The class activities were divided into two parts: 30 minutes for watching the movie clip and 10 minutes for post-watching discussion. The post-watching discussion was intended to ensure participants’ understanding of the story of the movie and some targeted lexical items.
At the beginning of every session, the participants watched ‘The Social Network’ in sequenced clips. The movie was divided into four clips and each clip was played in four sequential sessions. To avoid direct translation, the movie was given without Bahasa Indonesia subtitles.
Instead, the English subtitles were used to help learners notice the lexical items and understand the story. Besides understanding the storyline of the movie, the participants were expected to notice some words that were given in the pre-test and make sense of those lexical items based on the context presented in the movie. Given below are the lexical items that the participants were expected to notice while watching ‘The Social Network’.
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Adjectives Verbs Participles (can be used as
verbs or adjectives depending on the context)
Capable Demonstrate Accused
Competitive Deserve Assumed
Cryptic Distinguish Condescending
Delusional Exchange Elected
Exclusive Expand Finished
Genius Impress Interconnected
Intellectual Manage Invented
Priceless Monetize Motivated
Snide Rephrase Obsessed
Trite Specialize Reincorporated
Valuable Sue Supposed
World-class Stipulate Stolen
Torture
Watching the Movie
As the participants watched the movie, the researcher made field notes in each session. It was noticed that the participants attentively watched the movie in each session. Most of them focused only on the movie, watching closely, while some of them appeared to take some notes every couple of minutes watching, as if they jotted down some items they found peculiar or familiar from the pre-test they took. The researcher also noticed some participants talking to each other, discussing and commenting about the movie at the start of the second to the fourth meeting, the researcher asked the class to retell a short part they remember about the previous clip of the movie before they continued watching. From this warming-up activity, the participants seemed to understand the context and the story-line of the movie. Moreover, from this activity, some participants unintentionally mentioned some of the targeted lexical items when they recalled the scene or some parts of the conversations.
Before the end of each session, the participants were invited to share the words they noticed
16 November 2019, Bandar Lampung, Indonesia 92 while watching the movie clips. They were also asked the definitions of the words they found.
The researcher discouraged the use of dictionary to find definitions of each word. The participants should recall what they have watched to understand the meaning of the words.
Thus, instead of using the dictionary to find out the meaning, the researcher replayed the part where some particular words are used in contextual talks whenever the participants could not identify the definition of some words. Some participants could guess the meanings of some words given in the pre-test after watching how those words were used in the movie. Given below are some targeted vocabulary items that most of the participants shared in the post-watching discussion.
Words Use of the words in the movie Definitions by
participants Genius ‘Did you know that there are more people with genius IQs
living in China than there are people of any kind living in the United States?
A very smart person.
Very intelligent.
A quality of being so smart.
Distinguish ‘How do you distinguish yourself in a population of people who all got 1600 on their SATs?’
To notice some differences.
Delusional ‘To row crew? No. Are you, whatever, delusional?’ Being irrational.
Unrealistic.
Assumed ‘I assumed you had met one.’ Making prediction.
Having opinion.
Obsessed ‘You’re obsessed with Finals Club.’ Becoming so demanding about something.
Prescribe ‘You have Finals Club OCD and you need to see someone about it who will prescribe you some sort of medication.
Something related to medicine.
Having schedule to use medicine.
Stolen ‘Selling a stolen car to pay for the stolen gas.’
‘He stole our website.’
To take something without permission.
Taken away without permission.
Invented ‘I invented Facebook.’ To create something
new.
Sue ‘What? You want to hire an IP lawyer and sue him?’ Related to law.
To process under the regulated law.
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because he was a member of the Phoenix Club?
Chosen by voting.
Based on the list, it can be assumed that the participants are able to understand some meanings of vocabulary items when they are used in particular context. The statements and questions of the actor, which are set in natural interactions, help the learners to acquire meanings. However, the researcher believes that watching only once will not be effective.Thus, at the end of the fourth session, the participants were asked to re-watch the movie once more at home to be prepared for the evaluation.