| dc.description.abstract | Listening is considered as the most important skill. We put listening as the
most frequent skill that we use. Most of the students spend their time with the
activities related to listening. Sometimes, the students still have some difficulties
in finding the general and specific information in the spoken passage. Therefore,
they failed in the listening comprehension test. Further, the teacher also rarely
gives chance to the students’ to listen native speaker’s voice. It makes the students
have no experience in comprehending native speakers’ voice and the students
assume that the teaching learning process of listening comprehension in the
classroom is uninteresting. In this case, authentic materials was chosen to help the
students to improve their listening comprehension achievement to give them new
experiences in listening to real native speaker’s voice since authentic material
could give the students various information about what is happening in the world
nowadays, so they can get a lot of experiences especially in educational field.
This research was classroom action research. It was intended to improve
the XI IPA 1 students’ listening comprehension achievement and active
participation by using authentic materials. This research subjects were the students
of class XI IPA 1 at SMA Negeri 1 Pesanggaran in the 2017/2018 academic year.
This class was chosen because this class had problem in listening comprehension
and the mean score for this class in listening comprehension was 69. Besides,
according to the teacher, the students’ participation in learning process is also low.
The improvement of the students’ listening comprehension achievement and their
participation were analyzed quantitatively. In this research, the observation and
listening comprehension test were used to get the primary data, while interview
guide and documentation were used to get the secondary data.This research was conducted in two cycles and each cycle had two
meetings and listening comprehension test. Each cycle covered the four stages
that include planning of the action, the implementation of the action, classroom
observation and evaluation, data analysis and reflection. Based on the students
listening comprehension achievement in the first cycle had met the target criteria,
There were 28 out of 36 students (77.78%) who got score at least ≥75. But, the
action was continued to Cycle 2 in order to see the consistency of the success
achieved in Cycle 1. In cycle 2 the mean score of listening comprehension test
were 85. There were 30 out of 36 students (83.33%) who got score at least ≥75.
Based on the observation, the average result of the percentage of the
students’ active participation in cycle 1 was 79.17 %. It means that the target of
success in this research had met the target criteria. Further, the observations were
continued to cycle 2. Moreover, the average result of the percentage of the
students’ active participation was 81.95 % in cycle 2. It means that the use of
authentic materials could increase the students’ active participation in the teaching
learning process of listening activities. Thus, it is suggested to the English
teachers to use authentic materials in teaching listening because authentic
materials could motivate the learners to learn the target language as authentic
materials are really close to the use of real language. | en_US |
