The Effect of Using Short Movies on the Eleventh Grade Students’ Listening Comprehension Achievement

Abstract

This study discussed about the effect of using short movies on the eleventh grade students’ listening comprehension achievement. It was focused on the use of short movie in teaching listening. There are two types of media that can be used to teach listening skill. One of the media is Audio-visual media. It provides the material in motion pictures and sound. Short movie is one of audio-visual media that can be used in teaching listening skill. This research was conducted at SMAN Kalisat. The research population was the XI Science students of SMAN Kalisat on the 2020/2021 academic year. The participants were determined based on the closest mean score. Based on the result, class XI MIPA 6 was chosen as the experimental class and class XI MIPA 5 was chosen as the control class. The research analyzed the effect of using short movie by using independent sample T-test in order to find the significant effect between using short movie and audio only. The material of this study was constructed based on the guideline of the 2013 English Curriculum. The result of this study answered the research questions. The questions asked ‘Is there any significant effect of using short movies on the eleventh grade students’ listening comprehension achievement?’ the researcher concluded that were significant effect of using short movie in teaching listening comprehension achievement. The result shows that using short movie is better than using audio only. The analysis showed that the mean score of the experimental class was higher than the control class. It was 87,7778 for experimental group and 70,7500 for control class. The T-test with equal variance assumed, t=-3,686 and p=0,002 lower than 0,05. The result of independent sample T-test showed that H0 was rejected, meanwhile the H1 was accepted. It means that was a significant effect of using short movies on the eleventh grade students listening comprehension. Based on the result of this study, it was concluded that the use of short movie gave a significant effect on the students’ listening comprehension achievement. The researcher recommend for the English teacher to use short movie as learning media in teaching listening.