Kartikawati, The Effectiveness of The Effectiveness of Animated Video to Teach First Grade Students of Starlight Tuition in Mastering Number

Teaching English for young learner is not a simple thing. They need different treatment in learning new things especially new language. Some teachers use games, videos, songs, etc. The researcher made an animated movie about “Numbers”. It can be used to teach first grade students to learn Numbers in English from one to ten. The researcher wants to know whether the video made is effective or not to teach first grade students in Starlight Tuition. The result is animated video is effective to teach vocabulary especial “Numbers” to young learner.


INTRODUCTION
Introducing new vocabulary to children is not as easy as teaching to adult.
Teacher needs some tricks to attract children during the learning process. Teacher must be more creative in creating learning content to teach English, especially elementary school teacher whose students need guidance from he them related to the material.
Children need special treatment to learn new things, in this case new language. The researcher creates an animated video to help the teacher to teach English, especially a new vocabulary, in this case is learning Numbers.
Learning vocabulary is the most important thing in learning a new language.
Vocabulary is needed in all language skill like speaking, reading, writing and listening.
Without understanding the vocabulary, someone cannot understand what people say in a language. This is supported by Penny Ur (1996:60) that state vocabulary is one of the most important things of foreign language learning. Even it can be said that cocabulary is also the key for foreign language learning. Alqahtani (2015) argued that to write grammatically correct sentences also need vocabulary, without vocabulary the text will not valuable  Maximo (2000) suggested to consider vocabulary as an essential thing in language teaching. Second language learners will face a big problem if they lack of vocabulary. This statement also supported by Meara (1980) and Wilkins in Thornbury (2002) Grauberg (1997: 15) cited by Rohmatilah (2004) showed the four stages of learning vocabulary. First step is discriminating. It is the basic step of learning vocabulary. In this step students distinguish sounds and letters from this step is called the base step. This step is a function that distinguishes adjacent sounds and letters of similar words in listening and reading to make them be able to write and speak differently. The second step is understanding the meaning that make the students know and understand the meaning of words and followed by remembering the words.
The last step is consolidation and extension of meaning because learning vocabulary is not just in one moment but going on continuously.
McKay (2008) categorize five to twelve year-old children into young learners.
Children learning a language before or during six year-old in formal school also categorized as young learner by McKay (2008). Students at this age have several characteristics. They prefer to play rather than sitting regularly or doing task in class.
They are more active and prefer leaning in groups than individually. This is also supported by Piaget, cited in Shin (2009). Children are fast learners and they have strong memory. In responding something they do spontaneously.
The materials given to children are also simple materials like number (1 to 10), family, fruits and vegetables, colors, and part of body (Nurhadi, 2012). Teacher also should deliver the materials in a simple way. The phases of teaching methods are presentation, practice, and production (Nurhadi, 2012). In presentation phase, teacher presents or delivers the material to students. It is part of introducing new material, in this case is vocabulary is introduced in an attracting and suitable way. Teacher can use learning media in this phase, such as game, animated video, song, etc. After that students practice what they have learned so they can produce the vocabulary in correct way (pronunciation and spelling).
Teacher can introduce numbers of a new language to young learner through songs because it is a fun. According to Griffee (1992) in Dzanic (2016) songs can reduce anxiety. The teacher should be able to choose a suitable one or the students. Beside songs, teacher also can use pictures or toys to teach "numbers" to young learner. Animated video also can be applied to teach "Numbers" to young learners because animated video consists of interesting visual, animation and even songs (Alimah, 2012). Brown (2000) define teaching as an activity of learning to do something, giving instruction and knowledge, and helping students to understand the material. Teacher has a power to decide what media he/she will use to deliver the material. He/she can use an attractive media to help students to understand the materials.
Arsyad (2002) in Nizwardi (2016) divides media into four, print technology media, audio visual media, computer-based media, and combination between printed media and computer media. While Singh (2019) grouped media into "print media" such as journals, newspaper, magazine, book, "Non-print media" like projection media (a media that needs to be projected in to screen) and non-projection media (3D and 2 D object), and "Electronic media" such as audio visual media, audio media, and visual media.
Audio visual media is a media that give experience to students both to listen and see at the same time. It can be in the form of animated movie. Ainsworth (2008) claimed that animated video is an easy way to help students to understand the complex materials.

METHOD
The design of this study is pre-experimental design, with one group pre-test and post-test design. The data of experimental research can be analyzed by t-test formula. The data of experimental research can be analyzed with computer program. This study will use Minitab program to analyze the data.   The table above shows the correlation between pre-test and post-test is 0.575.

Findings
It means the two variables are high correlated. The Table above shows Ttest| is 4.07, it is higher than Ttable, that is 2.0195 and P-value is 0, that is lower than α, that is 0,05.

Discussions
The data found in this research show score enhancement from pre-test and The animated media used in the teaching process is designed as attractive as possible for young learners. It is supported by Ainsworth (2008) that animated media can easily help students to understand complex material.
The researcher also applied drilling method in this research because by repeating the video, the students are able to memorize the materials quickly.

CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
Animated video is an attractive media to teach a new language especially vocabulary. The researcher used animated video to teach "Numbers" to first grade students of Starlight Tuition. The result is show that animated media is effective to teach "Numbers" to them.
The further researcher can develop other researchers especially in developing animated media to help teachers to teach English to young learner, especially foreign language young learner.