THE EFFECT OF USING NEWS RECORD FROM BBC LEARNING ENGLISH ON THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMAN 1 KENCONG IN THE 2011/2012 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

Listening is one of the language skills that is very important in foreign language learning. In contrast, listening has long been forgotten by teacher at school. River in Vandergrift The teachers can use media to help students in the teaching and learning process. It is considered to be very useful especially for the second language learning, because it can make the teaching and learning process more interesting. Besides, it also functions as one of the aids to help and facilitate the students understand the materials. The media of teaching listening in EFL classroom that can be used are from visual materials, audio materials, and also audio visual materials. This research only focuses on the use of audio materials, that is news record from BBC Learning English in the listening class. The design used in this research was quasi experimental research design, with Nonequivalent-Groups Pre-test Post-test Design. Muijs the English teacher in SMAN 1 Kencong - Jember, that was teaching by using voice recorder or teacher voice. Based on the analysis of the pre-test and post-test scores with Microsoft excel