THE EFFECT OF USING FAIRY TALE ANIMATIONS ON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMPN 3 BANGSALSARI IN THE 2011/2012 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

Listening is an important part of learning English. Listening is used far more than any other skills in individual life. However, most of junior high school students in Indonesia faces difficulties in listening. They face many difficulties because there are so many differences between English and Indonesian language. As a result, the students feel uncomfortable and confused when they are in listening class. Fairy tale animations was used to know whether or not there is a significant effect of using fairy tale animations on the eighth grade students’ listening comprehension achievement at SMPN 3 Bangsalsari in the 2011/2012 academic year. It was used because it has some benefits such as animation is popular among children, with animation no after-editing is necessary, animation is easy to be controlled, animation and imagination are closely connected which makes it possible to use animation even with the youngest pupils, animation makes “moving in time” easy, an animation production can combine the physical and the virtual worlds, and animation strengthens the creative mind. The research design was experimental research. The population of this research was the eighth year students of SMPN 3 Bangsalsari in the 2011/2012 academic year that consiststing of four classes. Total number of students from eighth grade is 117 students. All classes of the eighth grade were considered to have the same ability because there was no leading class. Based on these considerations a lottery was used to determine the sample. The result was classes VIII A and VIII B which were chosen. Then the researcher flipped a coin to determine which class was the experimental class and which class was the control class. The result was class VIII B as the experimental class and class VIII A as the control class. The data of the research were collected from gain score. The gain score was gained by subtracting the pretest and posttest score. The primary data were collected then analyzed by using independent sample t-test on SPSS program. Based on the calculation, the mean score of the experimental group was higher than the mean score of the control group. The result of independent sample t-test analysis was lower than 0.05 (0.000). The research results proved that there was a significant effect of using animations on the eighth grade students’ listening comprehension achievement at SMPN 3 Bangsalsari in the 2011/2012 academic year. Therefore, it is suggested that the English teacher to also use fairy tale animations as an alternative teaching media in teaching listening.