Improving the X5 Grade Students’ Listening Comprehension Achievement by Using Picture Series at SMA Negeri Rambipuji

Abstract

Listening plays an important role in the second or foreign language acquisition that should be mastered by the students in Indonesia, especially the students of Senior High School. The aim of this research was to solve the problems related to the students' listening comprehension achievement and their active participation. The research subjects were chosen by using purposive method. The research design used was Classroom Action Research. The data of this research were taken from listening comprehension test and observation (for the primary data), interview and documentation (for the secondary data). The result showed some improvements in each cycle. In Cycle 1, there was about 75,88% or 25 students of 33 students who were active in teaching learning activity. In Cycle 2, there was 77,28% students of 26 students of 33 students who were active in teaching learning activity. In addition, there were 75% or 24 students of 32 students who could achieve the target score requirement by the school both in Cycle 1 and Cycle 2. It indicated that the use of picture series could improve the X5 grade students’ listening comprehension achievement of the students.