| dc.description.abstract | English for Specific Purpose (ESP) is usually designed for students who have
future reasons in learning English. In Indonesia, ESP is applied at vocational school
or formally called SMK (Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan) since its aim is specifically
preparing the graduates to acquire supporting skill of any profession and ability of
self-improvements. In the teaching of English, Listening is one of the skills which
have to be achieved by students because it plays a lifelong role in the process of
communication. Moreover, through listening, ESP students can get some new
information and/or knowledge related to their academic purposes. For this reasons,
the use of authentic material is very important in designing listening material based
on ESP. It maintains the student’s motivation in learning English based on the
functions that they will need to perform in their fields of specialty or job and getting
closer to real language.
This experimental research was intended to investigate whether or not there
was a significant effect of using ESP listening material on the eleventh year students’
listening comprehension achievement at SMK Negeri Tlogosari Bondowoso in the
2010/2011 academic year. The respondents of this research were the grade XI ATP
(Agribisnis Tanaman Pangan) students of SMK Negeri Tlogosari Bondowoso in the
2010/2011 academic year. The research respondents were determined by cluster
random sampling through a lottery. The total number of the respondents was 53
students, divided into experimental and control group. The experimental group
consisted of 27 students of grade XI ATP 1 who were taught listening by using ESP
listening material taken from the authentic material which are from VOA special
English Agriculture reports. The control group consisted of 26 students of grade XI
ATP 2 who were taught listening by using recorded material of recount text or
conventional material.
The primary data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of
listening comprehension test, while the supporting data were gained through
documentation. The primary data were collected from the post test to make
comparison between the two groups after the treatment and were analyzed by using ttest
formula. Based on the calculation, the result indicated that the mean score of the
experimental group was higher than that of the mean score of the control group
(69.37> 64.89). The result of data analysis using t-test showed that t-test value was
higher than that of t-table at 5% significant level (2.06>2.04). It means that the null
hypothesis was rejected, thus the alternative hypothesis stating that there was an
effect of using ESP listening material on the eleventh year students’ listening
comprehension achievement at SMK Negeri Tlogosari Bondowoso in the 2010/2011
academic year was accepted. It indicated that there was a significant mean difference
between the experimental group and the control group.
Based on the research results above, it can be concluded that using ESP
listening material gave an effect to grade XI students’ listening comprehension
achievement at SMK Negeri Tlogosari Bondowoso in the 2010/2011 academic year.
Therefore, it is recommended for the English teacher to use ESP listening material
taken from authentic material which is from VOA special English Agriculture reports
as an alternative material in teaching English based on students’ content subject.
Furthermore, for the future researchers, it is suggested to conduct further research
dealing with those problems to improve the quality of students’ listening
comprehension achievement, particularly concerning with the students’ motivation to
focus on the learning objective in the teaching of listening based on ESP. | en_US |
