| dc.description.abstract | Based on the result of informal interview with the first year English teacher of
SMA PGRI 10 Glenmore, it was revealed that most of the students’ English scores
were low. Furthermore, they often got difficulties in listening especially in finding
general and specific information of news reports within the genre “news item”.
Additionally, in teaching learning activities, especially in teaching listening, the way
of the teacher in teaching listening was still monotonous. She just focused on the use
of textbook materials. This way of teaching had resulted the students’ sleepiness and
boredom. Considering the problems above, this research was undertaken to overcome
the problems above by using recorded television news to improve the students’
listening achievement, to give the students new learning experience and arouse the
students’ excitements. Additionally, in relation to recorded television news’ features
for listening comprehension aids were some of considerations for the researcher in
conducting this action research entitled “Improving the First Year Students’ Listening
Comprehension Achievement by Using Recorded Television News on VCD at SMA
PGRI 10 Glenmore in the 2006/2007 Academic Year”.
To achieve the purpose, an action research was implemented through cycles.
In the implementation, there were two meetings for each cycle. Furthermore, the
research was conducted through the following procedures 1) Planning of the action,
2) Implementation of the action, 3) Classroom Observation and Evaluation,
4) Reflection of the action. Dealing with the data analysis method, the classroom
observation used an observation checklist to identify the students’ activeness, while
the results of evaluation were analyzed by using percentage method to measure the
students listening comprehension achievement and improvement in their listening
test. | en_US |
