The Use of Science Film Media “Gravity and Interstellar” in English Learning to Improve the Understanding of the Physics Concepts

Nurlela Muhammad, Astuti Salim, Susana Bahara

2018

Abstract

Physics and English are two disciplines that play an important role in the advancement of science and technology in the globalization era. Physics is a basic capability that must be possessed to advance science and technology. That is why physics has also become the main pillar for technological advances today. Some of the research results from physicists have contributed greatly to current technology. English courses in the Physics Education Study Program are included in the English for Specific Purpose (ESP) or English Language category for specific purposes, in which the teaching material must be related to physics that the students’ needs. However, the lack of understanding of the physics concepts is still the main problem faced by students of the Physics Education Study Program. This research is an experimental study used experimental design, namely the one group pretest-posttest design. Subject of research is students of fifth semester in Physics Education Study Program. Technique of collecting data used instruments in the form of essay questions. Techniques of analyzing data are descriptive quantitative and inferential analysis approaches using t test to determine whether there is an increase between the average data. The results indicates that learning English in physics education study programs by using the media of science film can improve the students’ understanding of physics concepts. This can be seen based on the results of the t-test, it is known that the average before getting pre-test is 55.69 after getting post-test to be 67.09 so that the increase was 11.62%, then t-test was obtained, the t-count was 10.208. The value of t-table with df 34 at the significance level of 5% is 1.69.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Muhammad N., Salim A. and Bahara S. (2018). The Use of Science Film Media “Gravity and Interstellar” in English Learning to Improve the Understanding of the Physics Concepts.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Teaching and Learning - Volume 1: ICTL, ISBN 978-989-758-439-8, pages 242-248. DOI: 10.5220/0008900102420248

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ictl18,
author={Nurlela Muhammad and Astuti Salim and Susana Bahara},
title={The Use of Science Film Media “Gravity and Interstellar” in English Learning to Improve the Understanding of the Physics Concepts},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Teaching and Learning - Volume 1: ICTL,},
year={2018},
pages={242-248},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008900102420248},
isbn={978-989-758-439-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Teaching and Learning - Volume 1: ICTL,
TI - The Use of Science Film Media “Gravity and Interstellar” in English Learning to Improve the Understanding of the Physics Concepts
SN - 978-989-758-439-8
AU - Muhammad N.
AU - Salim A.
AU - Bahara S.
PY - 2018
SP - 242
EP - 248
DO - 10.5220/0008900102420248