Improving Class VIII B Students’ Active Participation and Listening Comprehension Achievement on Narrative Text by Using Video at SMP Negeri 1 Tanggul in the 2013/2014 Academic YeaR

Abstract

Listening as one of the English skills has an essential part in English education to be mastered first before continuing learning the other three skills. The aim of this research was to solve the problems covering the students' active participation and listening comprehension achievement. The research design was Classroom Action Research. The area and participants of this research were chosen by using purposive method. The data collected were observation, listening test, interview and documentation. The results showed that there were improvement in Cycle 1 to Cycle 2. The students’ active participation increased from 85.88% in Cycle 1 to 96.70% in Cycle 2. Moreover, the improvement of the students’ listening comprehension achievement increased from 84.85% in Cycle 1 to 90.91% in Cycle 2. It indicated that the use of video could improve the students' active participation and listening comprehension achievement.