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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background o the problem Technology has now an important role in teaching because innovative tools and strategies have emerged, offering teachers different video sources to be implemented in english foreign language classrooms to develop students listening comprehension. However, few investigations have been done to study the video effects on listening comprehension (Ogasawara, 1994). According to this, we wanted to know the effects that the use of video materials produced in the development of listening skills in an english foreign language classroom. Today, individual learners can, in addition to interacting with computer-generated text and graphics, control combinations of analog and digital sound and images. Arranging these combined media into intelligent, pedagogically-driven material is a challenge to materials developers. Effectively integrating the technology into language learning contexts represents a challenge for language teaching professionals. A critical step in accomplishing these goals is careful examination of the technology's features in light of the needs, goals, and processes of language learning. The following discussion is an attempt to focus attention on the multi modal features of the technology that can interact with the development of listening skills in a second or foreign language.

In daily communication especially in the teaching-learning process, listening is the first language skill that should be acquired by students at any level because there are many topics being heard when people interact one to another. To listen necessary, so that communication can be understood and meaningful. Teachers of English realize that English is difficult subject for Indonesian student. Based on the writer experience when teaching English, many students have difficulties in studying English, especially in listening. Learning this skill seems difficult for many students and they often find it is hard to understand the meaning of certain text in their listening experience. Those things can be described in this activities in the class when studying English. They listen to English more then they read it. The difficult language skills is listening because it needs much attention and comprehension when process of learning is conduction. Rivers (1968:136) stated that listening comprehension has peculiar problem, which arose from the fleeting, and the immaterial nature of spoken utterances. Then, the obstacle may also occur when the learning media of listening is inappropriately used. Selecting and applying the appropriate media and instruments for the process of teaching and learning listening is definitely needed. Ideally, the activities of teaching listening involve the teachers manage and guide the students in acquiring and understanding the material through conducting effective media. In addition to the problem found in listening, the students were also asked about the situation in which they listened in English outside of class. The students feel more pleasure in listening by form of watching television or

movie. These lead me to the decision to focus on video or movie as the listening material in my research. Because, movie is one of audiovisual media; so that student can listen as well as see the movie the writer prepares movies one of them is Kungfu panda 2. As we know that most students are interested in watching movie. So the researcher is interested in the title: Improving Students Listening Ability through Movie at eight grade students of MTs Nurul Falah Cadas-Tangerang. Finally, it is hoped that by using movie in teaching listening, the aim of teaching that has been planned by teachers and school achieved.

1.2 Identification of the Problem. Based on the background above, the writer states the identification of the problem as follow: 1. Students find the difficult in listening activity to watching movie to improve students listening ability at the eight grade of MTs Nurul Falah Cadas -Tangerang? 2. Can listening activity through watching movie improve students listening ability at the eight grade of MTs Nurul Falah CadasTangerang?

1.3 Limitation of the problem The researcher limits the study how to improve students listening ability through movie for the class eight at MTs Nurul Falah Cadas-Tangerang.

1.4. Formulation of the Problem Based on the background of the above problems, the formulation of research problems are stated as follow: 1. How is the process of improving students listening ability through movie at the eight grade of MTs Nurul Falah Cadas-Tangerang? 2. How is the result of improving students listening ability through movie at the eight grade of MTs Nurul Falah Cadas-Tangerang? 1.5 The Objectives of the Research The objective of this research is to know whether any significant listening can improve students listening ability. 1. To find out the process of improving students listening ability through movie at the eight grade of MTs Nurul Falah Cadas-Tangerang. 2. To find out the result of improving students listening ability through movie at the eight grade of MTs Nurul Falah Cadas- Tangerang. 1.6 The Uses of the Research 1.6.1 In theoretical use Improving students listening through movie may be an alternative to improve students listening. And of this research will become an important an input for the improvement of teaching and learning process. 1.6.2 In practical use Improving students listening ability through movie can be as a contribution for students to improve their listening, for English teacher to use as a technique un teaching listening, and it can be one of choices in teaching and instructional media.

1.7 The Scope of the Research This research will be conducted at the first year of MTs Nurul Falah CadasTangerang the subject of this research is to students, it is the representative of all students in the eight class of MTs Nurul Falah Cadas-Tangerang. The writer will have treatment to improve students listening by using listening through movie. 1.8 Operational Definition 1.8.1 The Definition of Listening According to Harmer (1998:98), listening is a skill and any help we can give the students in performing that skill will help them to be a better listener. Moreover, Nunan (1995:18) stated that listening was knowledge which not directly encoded in word. Then, Vandergrift (2001:1) stated that listening is a tool for understanding and a key factor in facilitating language learning and it has emerged as an important comfort in the process of second language acquisition. Other expert such Hobbs (1977:142) also stated that listening was the oldest language skill because people begin to be exposed to spoken language in formal and informal situation. Brown (2001:249) stated that listening was a psycomotor process of receiving sound waves through the ear and transmitting nerve impulses the brain. Then Hobbs (1977:172) stated that listening was knowledge of understanding spoken words. Then, (1977:142) also stated that listening was the oldest language skill because the poeple begun to be exposed to spoken language in formal and informal language.Then, Vandergrift (2000:1) states that listening is a tool for

understanding and a key factor in facilitating language learning, and it has emerged as in important component in the process of second language acquisition. Thus, based on the explanation above the researcher assumes that listening is a skill that has a role as primary medium for teaching of other language skills. It mean that the skill of speaking. Reading and writing is taught and transferred to the students through comprehension of listening of each student. 1.8.2 Teaching Listening Comprehension River (1965:142), states that in teaching listening comprehension the teacher can device a sequence of activities which will train the students, the teacher must understand the nature of the skill. He is setting out to develop. Listening to a foreign language may be analyzed a involving to level activity, recognition level and selection level, both of which must be taught. Then, River (1968:146) stated that the teacher can easily underestimate the difficulties of the students. To the teacher the comprehension of elementary material is immediate and effortless. The teacher must try to see the process involved from the studens point of view and provide plenty of practice in hearing well-reashed material while requiring the abstraction from it of different time thought.

1.8.2 Movie Azhar Arsad (2002:48) stated that movie is generally used for the purpose of entertainment amusement, education and documentation they earn to present importation, process explained explaining complicated concept, teaching skills, brief or lengthen time and influences characters. Then, Sailing Wen (2003:35)

stated that film is not simply graphed and animation, but included cover softer picture and also more life, movie seems life.

1.9 Organization of Paper In this occasion, the researcher will organize the research paper into some chapters as follow: Chapter I will deal with introduction which consists of the background of the problem, identification of the problem, limitation of the problem, formulation of the problem, the objective of the research, the uses of the research, operational definition, and the scope of the research and organization of the paper. Chapter II includes the supporting theories which consist of the definition of definition listening, definition movie. Chapter III consists of research methodology which consists of research method, research subject, research procedure, data source, data analysis, and data collecting technique.

CHAPTER II THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK

2.1 The Concept of Teaching Listening 2.1.1 Teaching Hidayat (1995:6) stated that teaching as an operational process of curriculum. Then, Hasan (1994:51) stated that teaching as the process of transferring the knowledge and skill to the students through certain technique, method, and media. Moreover, Hyyrcrivt (1978:6) stated that teaching English should be as varied as living, and included as many approaches as possible. Moreover, Sujana (2002:43), states that teaching an interaction process between teacher and students of integrated to activities. The students learning activities is as the focus of the teaching process the essence of teaching is as effort which planed by arranging and preparing the condition that makes the students enable to do learning activities optimally. River (1965:142), stated that in teaching listening comprehension the teacher can device a sequence of activities which will train the students, the teacher must understand the nature of the skill. He is setting out to develop. Listening to a foreign language may be analyzed a involving to level activity, recognition level and selection level, both of which must be taught. Then, River (1968:146) stated that the teacher can easily underestimate the difficulties of the students. To the teacher the comprehension of elementary material is immediate and effortless. The teacher must try to see the process involved from the studens point of view and

provide plenty of practice in hearing well-reashed material while requiring the abstraction from it of different time thought. 2.1.2 Teaching English as Foreign Language 2.1 Concept of Teaching English as Foreign Language "Foreign language" as a language which is not the native language of large numbers of people in a particular country of region, is not used as a medium of instruction in schools and is not widely used as a medium of communication in government, media etc. They note that foreign languages are typically taught as school subjects for the purpose of communicating with foreigners or for reading printed materials in the language (Richards and Schmidt, 2002: 206). Teaching English as a foreign language requires the use of effective learning method. According to Richards and Rodgers (in Brown:48), Method is an umbrella term for the specification and interrelation of theory and practice. Furthermore they state that virtually all language teaching methods make the oversimplified assumption that what teachers do in the classroom can be conventionalized into a set of procedures that fits all contexts. It means that a set of procedures or the techniques in teaching have an influence to the students learning result. Among the purposes of foreign language learning are traveling abroad, communication with native speakers, reading foreign literature or scientific and technical works. (Richards and Schmidt, 2002: 207). In short, the researcher concludes that in teaching english as foreign language teacher take a big part in the classsroom, because teacher as the person who give knowledge to the students.

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Teaching English as a foreign language requires the use of effective learning method. According to Richards and Rodgers (in Brown:48), Method is an umbrella term for the specification and interrelation of theory and practice. Furthermore they state that virtually all language teaching methods make the oversimplified assumption that what teachers do in the classroom can be conventionalized into a set of procedures that fits all contexts. It means that a set of procedures or the techniques in teaching have an influence to the students learning result. 2.2 The Concept of Listening Harmer (1998:98), listening is a skill and any help we can give the students in performing that skill will help them to be a better listener. Moreover, Brown (2001:249) stated that listening was a psycomotor process of receiving sound waves through the ear and transmitting nerve impulses the brain. Nunan (1995:18) stated that listening was knowledge which not directly encoded in words. Then, Vandergrift (2001:1) stated that listening is a tool for understanding and a key factor in facilitating language learning and it has emerged as an important comfort in the process of second language acquisition. Other expert such Hobbs (1977:142) also stated that listening was the oldest language skill because people begin to be exposed to spoken language in formal and informal situation. While watching a video, the person is exposed to both audio and visual inputs; for that reason, this project is based on videos to develop listening skills. To define listening, Saha (2008) expresses that even though listening and hearing are related, listening involves an active process, which requires an analysis of sounds, in contrast to hearing that only perceives sounds in a passive way. In the same way,

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Harmer (2001) expresses that listening is a receptive skill where people obtain the main idea according to what they hear. Besides, Helgesen (cited by Gonzales Moncada, 2003) supports that listening helps learner to be flexible listeners, to know how to listen in order to get the general idea or the specific information needed to understand videos. Similarly, Richard & Rubin (cited by Van Duzer, 1997) argue that although listening is a passive skill it is very much an active process of selecting and interpreting information from auditory and visual clues. These theoreticians make a distinction between hearing and listening, in which listening could be understood as a receptive and passive skill, where the role of the listener is to understand the message rather than just perceiving sounds as hearing does, making listening an active process. Thus, based on the explanation above the researcher assumes that listening is a skill that has a role as primary medium for teaching of other language skills. It means that the skill of writing, reading,and speaking is taught and transferred to the student trough the comprehension of listening of each student. 2.3 Listening Material and Exercise Listening as a skill may be extremely similar to reading, but the next the listener has to deal with is considerably different from the written one. Before listening conducting listening material, the teacher should select the appropriate material for its level (beginner, intermediate, or advanced). Accorning to Harmer (1988:98) and Rivers (1968:148) that there are some listening material that would be appropriate for Junior high school student (intermediate level) such as: short dialogue or conversation, stories (fiction or nonfiction), literary extract

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such plays and poem, new broadcast, songs, movie,announcements, telephone exchange, interview, and radio program. Those listening materials should be applied to the students based on their competencies in listening. It means that the above materials should be taught to the students based on their capability in English, whether they are slow, medium, or accelerated students. Then Allen and Campell (1972:142) stated that planning listening exercise should be applied for specific English sound and for specific aspect of english gramar of a particular studentss group known to you. Moreover, the following some designs of listening exercise that would be appropriate for students at junior high school (intemediate level) according to rivers (1968:152). The first design of listening exercise is identification. This design can be in the form of short-phrase discrimination, listening to dialogues already learned, identification of phrases and statement from reading material studied, and games involving identification of words and phrases heard. The second of listening exercise is identification and selection without retention. This design can in the form of listening to variations of dialogues already learned, listening to the retelling with variation of reading material already studied, listening to the lesson from teacher with some interesting background facts or news items, listening to dramatic reading of stories, which contain a great deal of concersation, and listening to group conversation prepared by two or three students. The third design is identification and guided selection. This design can be in the form of true false question from variation of dialogues or reading material studied, multiple-choice answer to question given orally, listening to foreign

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language films, the students guess, the name of a person or place described by the teacher or another student, and completion of sentence of given orally. The last design is identification, selection,and retention. In this design, the student is expected to be able to tell in his own words in the foreign language what he has heard.

2.4 The types of Listening Text Defining the different types of listening text will make the teacher consider deffirent purposes in conducting his/her teaching and learning process of listening. As Brown (2001:250) stated that the forms of spoken language were important to incorporate inti language course, especially in teaching listening. In line with that, the following are the types of listening (aural) text.

Figure 2.1 The Type of Aural Text Aural Text

Monolog

Dialogue

Plannel

Unplannel

Interpersonal

Transaction

Unfamiliar

Familiar

Adapted to Nunan (1995:21)

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Monologue means the speaker uses spoken language for any length of time, as in speeches, lectures, and the like, and the hearer must process without interruption. Monologue text is divided into two forms such as planned Monologue and unplanned Monologue. Planned Monologue (such as speeches or lectures) usually manifest little redundancy and relatively difficult to comprehend. On the other hand, unplanned Monologue (such as story in conversation) exhibits more redundancy, which make easy in comprehension. Dialogue involves the interaction of two or more speaker. It is divided into interpersonal dialogue and transactional dialogue. Interpersonal dialogue means the exchange that promotes social relationship. In contrary, transactional dialogue has the purpose to convey prepositional or factual information. In interpersonal dialogue, moreover, it is divided into unfamiliar interpersonal dialogue.Unfamiliar interpersonal dialogue is made more explicit to assure effective comprehension, and when such referencesare not explicit, misunderstanding can easily follow. In familiar interpersonal dialogue, however,it will produce conversations with more assumption, implication and other hidden meaning. 2.5 The Teaching Listening Process Listening is half of oral communication and it is a skill that needs to be practiced and taken equally as seriously as speaking and writing. Listening process is not only receiving sound waves through the ears but also ending nerve impulses to the brain. According to Blake (1994:145), a person goes through from the time sounds are heard in the environment to the conversation of these sounds into meaningful information by the brain.

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There are five steps of listening process: receiving, understanding, responding, remembering and evaluating (A. Kline, 1996:12) a. Receiving Unlike hearing, listening starts with talking messages from the speakers. They can be verbal or non-verbal. At this step the listeners select necessary or interesting messages for him. b. Understanding The purpose of listening is to understand what does the speaker mean. Thoughts and emotional tone like that showing joy, anger, or sorrow are included in this step. Understanding happens gradually a the brain take more and more informations. And when understanding increases,. It becomes easier for the listener to give careful thought, to contrite, to avoid noises coming from outside. c. Responding There are two stages of responding. 3 Non-verbal responses given by the listeners while the speaker is talking. For exams, nodding the head, pointing your hand or clapping your hands which show that the listener is attending to the message. 4 Responses given after the speaker has stopped talking. For example expression of clarification, expression of agreement or disagreement. d. Remembering Listeners need to retain the messages hat have been received. What he remembers is not what the speaker said, but what he thinks the speaker said. It means that the listener cannot simply reproduce what the speaker said in

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his memory. Memory is not reproductive but reconstructive. Listener rebuilds the messages that make sense to him. e. Evaluating This step involves understanding the speakers point of view, distinguishing facts from inferences and opinions, identifying any biases, self interest and prejudice. At this step, the listener uses his own biases and prejudices which will influence his judgment. 2.6 The problem of teaching listening It cannot be denied that there are many factors influence in the teaching of language skills. In line with that, Nunan (1995:25) states several factors thta influence the teaching of listening. The first factor is the organization of information. It means that the text in which the order of information is presented in the chronological sequence of real life is easier than the text in which the information is presented out of sequence. The second factor is the familiarity of the topic. It means that the topic, which is familiar to the student will be easier to be comprehended than the unfaniliarity one. The text factor is the explicitness and sufficiency of the information. The student will be difficult to comprehend the information of the text or topic, whenever they are asked to comprehend the information from the complicated topic or text. Another factor is the use of referring expression. The use of referring expression such pronouns make the text more difficult than the complete noun

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phrase referent. The last factor that also makes listening difficult is whether the text described static relationship such a road accident. Meanwhile, the following are some problem of teaching listening that usually faced by the learner according to Brown (2001:252-254): 1) Clustering Clustering means we should break down speech into smaller groups of words. In teaching listening skill, thus, the teacher needs to help student to pick out manageable clusture of words (a whole sentence or even several sentence). 2) Redundancy Spoken language has great deal of redundancy. It means includes reprasing, repetition, elaboration, and tittle insertion of I mean and you know. Redundancy helps the hearer to process meaning by offering more time and extra information. 3) Reduced Forms Redused forms can be phonological (she is singin for she is singing), morphological (contractions like III), syntatic ellepticall forms like when will you be back? (May be tomorrow), pragmatic (mom! Phone?). 4) Performance Variables Performance variable include hesitations, false stars, pauses, and corrections. In everyday causal speech, it commonly contains ungrammatical forms. 5) Colloquial language Colloquial language includes idioms, slang, reduced forms, and cultural language that manifest in conversation. Colloquialism appears in both monolinguals and dialogues. 6) Rate of delivery Learners needs to be able to comprehend language delivered at varying rates of speed, times, and delivered with view pauses.

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7) Sress, rhythm, intonation Sress, rhythm, intonation, are very significant not just for interpreting elements such as question, statement, and emphasus, but for understanding more about the massages like sarcasms, solication, praise,etc. 8) Interaction Learn to listen means learn to respond and continue a chain of listening and responding. Thus, the student needs to understand that good listeners are good responders.

2.1.2 The Concept of Movie According to Azhar Arsad (2002:48) stated that movie is generally used for the purpose of entertainment amusement, education and documentation they earn to present importation, process explained explaining complicated concept, teaching skills, brief or lengthen time and influences characters. Then, Sailing Wen (2003:35) stated that film is not simply graphed and animation, but included cover softer picture and also more life, movie seems life. Movies also vary to penetrate time and room, get us conducive experience that seems life. Moreever, Wawan Kusnadi (1996:40) states that movie usually have two aspect that is hardware and software. Two technological peripheral of movie so called above, have indicated that attendance of movie always have functional and formative dimension in its execution. Very clear assist human being in exploiting result of movie masterpiece for the sake of and kindliness of people. Thus, based on the expalnation above, the writer assumes that movie can give stategic study room to process study English student and child. Advantages of

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existence of movie can equip experiences of base of student when they read, discussing, practice, etc. 2.1.4 The Procedure of Listening through Movie The researcher then put forwards some procedures of teaching listening comprehension through movie as follows: 1. 2. Introducing a new movie

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Advantages of movie 3. Movie or video can completed the basic experience from the student when they read, discussion, practice, etc. Movie is natural change and can show the object as normally cannot see, such as the way of heart when to throb. 4. Movie or video can showing the way of exact process which can watch repeated if it need. Example, the step and the correct way of wudhu. 5. Beside supporting and improving motivation, movie and video give a good point. For example, movie about healthy which present the process of disease diare, or either can make the student to be aware of the important cleanliness. 6. Movie or video have a positive side, and the student can interact to discuss it. Moreover, Movie or video as a motto can bring the world into the class. 7. Movie or video can present the danger event if we seeing directly as the lava of volcano or the attitude of wild animals. 8. Movie or video can showed big group or small group, heterogamette group, or individually. With the ability and technique of taking picture frame by frame, movie in normally speeds have a week of time can showing in one or two minutes.

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The Limitation

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1. The generally, film and video need expencive cost and many times. 2. When the film showed, the picture move quickly, and students can not follow the information which wills delivery through movie. Film and video which not always suitable with the need and the aim of learning which we want except fil and video planed and produce especially for needed itself. 2.2 The Previous Study Teaching Listening through movie ( At the second grade of SMA AlHusen Tunjung Teja ) By Fuzi Amelia ( 020578 ). In this research, the writer used quasi experemental research design. The writer gave pre-test and post-test to the students. The sample of the research is the XI Grade Science Students of SMA Al-Husen which consist of 40 students. In order to know weather the instrument are reliable or not, the writer used iter-rater reliability. Based on the r-table for 40 students at 0, 05 level of significant (0,312) those test are reliable since the result are higher than 0,321. The reliability of pre-test 1 is 0,97, reliability of pre-test 2 is 0,92, reliability of pre-test 3 is 0,98, reliability of post-test 1 is 0,93, reliability of post-test 2 is 0,94, reliability of post-test 3 is 0,98. The result of the research, the t-test 1 is 5, 64, t-test 2 is 6, 21, ttest 3 is 7,36. The T-table in 0,05 significant level by using 30,9 degreeof freedom is known 1,70, so, all the result are higher that t-table. In the conclusion there is an improvement of students listening comprehension through movie.

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It showed that t-tests were higher than t-table it means that the alternative hypothesis ( Ha ) could be accepted. In other word, there was significant improvement on the students reading comprehension through metacognitive strategies at the second grade of SMPN 5 Serang.

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1 Research Methodology The researcher will conduct Classroom Action Research (CAR) as a research methodology because the researcher will do the improvement on students listening ability through movie. According to Kemmish (Cited in Hopkins, 1993:45), he writes that action research is about systematic study at attempts to improve educational practice by groups of participants by means of their own practical action and by means of their own reflection upon the effects of those actions. So, the Classroom Action Research is a specific process for problem solving, verification, and discovery. The process works best through cooperation and collaboration. This research will conduct in the micro scale because it happened in the classroom when the teaching learning process of listening and the situation the classroom while doing the research as the reflection for measure of result research.

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The Action Research Spiral

1. Plan In this step the researcher explain about what, why, when, where by whom and how this action done. 2. Acting

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The executions which constitute the implementation or content application of planning, is used action in classroom. 3. Observing Observation activity which is done by observer actually is not exactly if the observer is separated with the application of the activity because observation should be done in the time of the action is doing. Therefore, both of them held in the same time. 4. Reflection Constitute the activity to convey again what are doing. 3.2 Research Subject This writer will conduct the research at MTs Nurul Falah Cadas - Tangerang. The writer finds her own class VIII. It consists of 40 students. 3.3 Research Procedure There are some procedures of the research, the researcher will survey at the school and are looking from problem there. Unfortunately students need an improvement in teaching learning process to get insight the best score of listening through movie. Therefore the researcher takes CAR as the research for their improvement in listening to through movie. The model of CAR that the researcher uses in this research is Kemmis model. The design in this research of 2 cycles which is related each other and continuity. There are four activities in this design, namely: planning, action, observation and reflection. CAR cycle in this research is described in a spiral from which is adopted from Kemmish and Mc. Teggart (Hopkins, 1993: 48).

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Table 3.3 Class Action Cycle (Hopkins, 1993: 48) Cycle 1 Planning, identification of the problem and determining the alternative to solve the problem Acting Plan the lesson of the material. - Prepare the material of listening xcomprehension. - Develop the material of listening xcomprehension. - Development the format of xobservation. a. - Give the material of listening xcomprehension b. - Apply action based on lesson plan xabout listening comprehension c. - Do evaluation in form of observation Observing a. Do the observation b. Evaluation the observation Reflecting The success of indicator on cycle 1 Do evaluation of acting 1 Getting information in a movie form of the functional text information or entertain. Responding to a variety

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of information in a movie. The students give their respond that listening ability information or entertain through movie.

Cycle 2

Planning revised plan

a. Plan based on cycle 1 but different material b. Prepare the material of listening through movie. c. Develop the material of listening through movie based on the lesson plan

Acting

a. Give the material of listening through movie. d. Apply action 2 based on lesson plan about listening through movie. b. Do evaluation in form of observation

Observing

a. Do the observation b. Evaluation the observation

Reflecting The success of indicator 0n cycle 2

Do evaluation of acting 2 Getting information in a short form listening through movie. Responding to a variety of information in a short from listening through movie.

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3.4 Data Collecting Technique 3.5.1 Observations Many questions require some types of direct observation of teaching and students behavior. There are several ways to collect information through observation. One popular ways is for the teacher to task a colleague to observe classroom interaction and collect needed information (Richard, 2004:511). Observation is one of the instruments that will use in this research in order to know the students activity in teaching learning process. The observation will be filled by the observer or teachers colleague. 3.5.2 Test

According to Donald et al (1998: 173) tests are valuable measuring instrument for educational research. The researcher will use pretest and posttest at the end of each cycle in this research to measure of students listening ability and it is relevance to get a data from students. 3.5.3 Documentation

Denscombe (2000: 159), mentions that documentation is a technique of to collect the data which takes from the visual sources (pictures) and even audio

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visual (video). In this research, the researcher will use digital camera for recording the activities into a photo image. 3.6 Research Instrument 1. Test The researcher will use a test method to collect the data and there were two tests use in this research as follow: a). Pre-test Pre-test will use to know the students achievement in listening comprehension before the implementation of cycle. b). Post-test Post-test will use to know the students achievement in listening comprehension after the implementation of cycle. In this research, the test that gave to the students was in the form of multiple choices. 2. Observation sheet It use to note finding and improvement during action step in each cycle. The guideline of the observation sheet encompassed: a.) Observation towards teaching learning process. (i) Observed teachers way of teaching. (ii) Observed students way of learning. (iii) Observed teachers way to solve the problem or the difficulties of students. b.) Observation towards teachers responses. c.) Observation towards the students responses.

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d.) Observation towards difficulties. (i) Observed students difficulties in listening comprehension class. (ii) Observed the way students solve the difficulties. e). Observation towards situation and conditions of teaching and learning process.

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3.7 Data analysis 3.7.1 Data Analysis Technique In this research, the researcher uses qualitative data analysis from Miles Hubarman (1994:10) analysis as consisting of three current flows of activity: data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing/verification. 1. Data Reduction The researcher will collect all the data use the data instrument then classified based on the focus of problem in order to get the main data for next step data collecting. 2. Data Display After having data reduction, the researcher will choose the data that important for the research. 3. Conclusion drawing/verification The last step that will be used in analyze data is conclusion. In this step the researcher will make the conclusion of data in order will be easier to understand. In this research, the writer uses data redactor to collect all data of observations and test and summarize it. After has data reduction, choosing the important data and make into short description. The last is verification or conclusion drawing. All of the steps make data more organize and the researcher and other to be easier understand.

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3.7. Quantitative Data Analysis Technique The writer uses some formula to find out the improving students listening ability through movie. 1. To find out the mean score of pre-test and post-test, the researcher calculated the average score by using the formula as follow X= n Where: X = mean score

X = the sum of all scores n = the total of number of subject

(Gay, 1996:36) 2. Percentage of students frequency The writer will calculate the percentage of students frequency by using formula as follow:

P = f x 100% N Where: P = Percentage f = frequency N = total number of students (Hatch and Farhady, 1981:46)

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Score interpretation: Score 0% - 20% = Very Low Score 21%- 40% = Low Score 41% - 60% = Average Score 61% - 80% = High Enough Score 81% -100% = High (Riduwan, 2009) The researchers compare average score of pre-test and post-test, if the average score of post-test has improvement in three cycles, the hypothesis is accepted.

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Pretest Listen the story (movie) carefully Then, retell the movie using your own words In form of paragraph

Posttest Listen and watch the story of movie carefully Then, retell the movie using your own words In form of paragraph consist of 100 words or more

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By watching these videos you will: a) Learn real English vocabulary, as spoken by real native speakers. You will learn English words and phrases that are used in real-life situations b) Practice and improve your listening skills and comprehension skills c) Learn proper pronunciation d) Learn useful English language expressions as well as phrases for conversation e) Feel that learning English can be fun!

Teaching Listening
Listening skills are vital for your learners. Of the 'four skills,' listening is by far the most frequently used. Listening and speaking are often taught together, but beginners, especially non-literate ones, should be given more listening than speaking practice. It's important to speak as close to natural speed as possible, although with beginners some slowing is usually necessary. Without reducing your speaking speed, you can make your language easier to comprehend by simplifying your vocabulary, using shorter sentences, and increasing the number and length of pauses in your speech. There are many types of listening activities. Those that don't require learners to produce language in response are easier than those that do. Learners can be asked to physically respond to a command (for example, "please open the door"), select an appropriate picture or object, circle the correct letter or word on a worksheet, draw a route on a map, or fill in a chart as they listen. It's more difficult to repeat back what was heard, translate into the native language, take notes, make an outline, or answer comprehension questions. To add more challenge, learners can continue a story text, solve a problem, perform a similar task with a classmate after listening to a model (for example, order a cake from a bakery), or participate in real-time conversation. Good listening lessons go beyond the listening task itself with related activities before and after the listening. Here is the basic structure:

Before Listening Prepare your learners by introducing the topic and finding out what they already know about it. A good way to do this is to have a brainstorming session and some discussion questions related to the topic. Then provide any necessary background information and new vocabulary they will need for the listening activity.

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During Listening Be specific about what students need to listen for. They can listen for selective details or general content, or for an emotional tone such as happy, surprised, or angry. If they are not marking answers or otherwise responding while listening, tell them ahead of time what will be required afterward. After Listening Finish with an activity to extend the topic and help students remember new vocabulary. This could be a discussion group, craft project, writing task, game, etc.

The following ideas will help make your listening activities successful.

Noise Reduce distractions and noise during the listening segment. You may need to close doors or windows or ask children in the room to be quiet for a few minutes. Equipment If you are using a cassette player, make sure it produces acceptable sound quality. A counter on the machine will aid tremendously in cueing up tapes. Bring extra batteries or an extension cord with you. Repetition Read or play the text a total of 2-3 times. Tell students in advance you will repeat it. This will reduce their anxiety about not catching it all the first time. You can also ask them to listen for different information each time through. Content Unless your text is merely a list of items, talk about the content as well as specific language used. The material should be interesting and appropriate for your class level in topic, speed, and vocabulary. You may need to explain reductions (like 'gonna' for 'going to') and fillers (like 'um' or 'uhhuh'). Recording Your Own Tape Write appropriate text (or use something from your textbook) and have another English speaker read it onto tape. Copy the recording three times so you don't need to rewind. The reader should not simply read three times, because students want to hear exact repetition of the pronunciation, intonation, and pace, not just the words. Video You can play a video clip with the sound off and ask students to make predictions about what dialog is taking place. Then play it again with sound and discuss why they were right or wrong in their predictions. You can also play the sound without the video first, and show the video after students have guessed what is going on. Homework Give students a listening task to do between classes. Encourage them to listen to public announcements in airports, bus stations, supermarkets, etc. and try to write down what they heard. Tell them the telephone number of a

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cinema and ask them to write down the playing times of a specific movie. Give them a tape recording of yourself with questions, dictation, or a worksheet to complete. Look for listening activities in the Activities and Lesson Materials sections of this guide. If your learners can use a computer with internet access and headphones or speakers, you may direct them toward the following listening practice sites. You could also assign specific activities from these sites as homework. Teach new vocabulary ahead of time if necessary.

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab Around 140 listening clips and quizzes for students to access online; categorized into four difficulty levels, but activities marked 'easy' may be too difficult for beginners due to unfamiliar vocabulary; many include preand post-listening exercises; requires audio software such as RealPlayer (free) or optional interactive software like Divace. The English Listening Lounge Thirty free listening clips categorized into three difficulty levels for students to access online; more available with membership; requires audio software such as RealPlayer (free).