Skripsi

Using interactive CD to improve listening skills on recount texts for the eight grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Gresik / Ika Trisnantasari

Abstrak
Key Words Interactive CD listening skills recount texts This study investigates how to improve junior high school students listening skill while using interactive CD on recount text for learning English. Interactive CD is considered important to assist the instruction and facilitate the students listening skills. By using media the materials in listening can be more understandable learning activities become more interesting and the teachers can use various activities in their instruction. Instructional media are also very beneficial in English Language Teaching. However English teachers seem to find difficulties in conducting teaching listening process by using media effectively and efficiently. Looking at this situation the researcher is interested in investigating the use of interactive CD in the teaching listening skills of English at SMP Negeri 1 Gresik. The researcher chose SMP Negeri 1 Gresik because this school was the favorite school in Gresik. This school could be appointed a pilot international standard school (RSBI) because it complied with the requirements of the RSBI-school. In this school also already use ICT in teaching learning process. The samples would be the VIII.H class with 27 students which consists of 9 male and 18 female students. To do this study the researcher would apply CAR (Classroom Action Research) at the chosen class. However the researcher should do some steps in applying CAR such as planning implementing observing-evaluating and reflecting. The observers in this research were the English teacher of SMP Negeri 1 Gresik they were Mrs. Sopho and Mrs. Rini. The researcher chose them because they were the English teacher who have high quality in their job they also often join the workshop that related to ELTIS. Therefore hopefully they could promote the method by using interactive CD to other teachers. The researcher used nine kinds of instruments to gather data. They were preliminary-test for intermediate level an interactive CD questionnaires observation sheets teacher journal (students score especially in listening skill) learners feedback or the students assignment lesson evaluation recording lessons and interview. After using interactive CD the students took a listening comprehension test and completed a questionnaire about listening skill. Students responses to the interactive CD were categorized into different types of listening strategies as reflected in the studies of Oxford (1990) and Teng (1996). The research was conducted in two cycles from August until September 2010. The research findings proved that using interactive CD on recount text could improve the students listening skills and the classroom situation of teaching listening skill. The improvement of students listening skill could obtain from the students average score starting 38.45 in preliminary-test become 63.7 in cycle 1 and increase become 93 in cycle 2. At the last of the cycle the students achieved score 91 or excellent category in criteria of success. The improvement of students listening skill included students could identify the topic the certain information and the purpose from the text that they heard and students could deliver the text by oral and written text. Then the improvement of classroom situation included students were not sleepy during the English listening lesson in the classroom students came on time in the class students tended to be active learners students were not noisy during the teaching learning process and students paid attention toward their teacher s explanation. Besides two findings above there were other findings as follows students completed various exercises students more enthusiast to listening English and students were responsible with their jobs. The researcher finds that using the interactive CD could improve the VIII-H class. She also hopes that she could inspire other teachers to conduct action research as she did in their classroom too.

Informasi Detail

DDC

Rs 428.307 TRI u

Prodi

Universitas Negeri Malang. Program Studi Bahasa Inggris, 2010.

Deskripsi Fisik

xiv, 200 lembar : il. , tab. ; 30 cm.

Bahasa

No Reg

00294/KI/11

Edisi

Skripsi (Sarjana) -- Universitas Negeri Malang. 2010

Subjek

1. BAHASA INGGRIS - MENDENGAR, KEMAMPUAN
2. BAHASA INGGRIS - MENDENGAR - MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN

Pembimbing

1. Harits Masduqi

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