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Improving Students’ Listening Skill by Using Video Animations on the Eleventh Grade Students of MAN 1 Kediri
Listening is one of the most important skills in English language learning. It
is considered as receptive skill, in which students need the ability to receive
spoken language. Listening is language skill that should be learned by students of
MAN 1 Kediri, it is because most of the students have difficulties in listening
comprehension based on the interview. So, one way to solve these problems is
using an alternative media in English listening process. This media can stimulate
and activate the students’ knowledge in order to improve student listening
achievement. Based on that problem, to create an appropriate media in teaching
listening process, the researcher decided to conduct the research on the use of
video animation.
In this research, the researcher used Classroom Action Research. This action
research was conducted in two cycle. The procedure of every cycle in this
research consisted of preliminary study, planning, implementing, observing, and
reflecting. In collecting the data, the researcher used observation checklist,
interview, listening test and scoring rubric as the instruments.
The result of this research shows video animation could improve students’
listening skill. The students’ listening skill improved after the implementation of
video animation by interpreter of the percentage of students’ achievement in
listening a biography text in video animations. The percentage of the students who
get score ≥78 was 23.33% (7 students) with average score 69.13 in preliminary
study, while in the first cycle, the students who get score ≥78 was 46.66% (14
students) the average was 70.43. But it was improved in the post-test (cycle 2) that
the students who got score ≥78 was 80% (24 students) with the students’ average
score was 78.8.
Based on the result of the study, the researcher concluded that students’
listening skill can be improved through video animations. Therefore, it is
recommended that the teacher should apply video animations in teaching listening
process.
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