THE EFFECT OF USING CARTOON VIDEO ON THE RECOUNT TEXT LISTENING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMPN 5 JEMBER IN THE 2017/2018 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

This research was a quasi experimental research. The purpose of this research was to know whether or not there was a significant effect of using Cartoon Video on the Recount Text Listening Comprehension Achievement of the Eighth Grade Students at SMPN 5 Jember in the 2017/2018 Academic Year. The area of this research was SMPN 5 Jember which was chosen purposively because the use of Cartoon Video on the Eighth Grade students had never been applied by the English teachers in teaching listening. Permission was given by the principal of SMPN 5 Jember to conduct the research at this school and the English teachers agreed to help the researcher to conduct this research. The population of this research was the eighth grade students of SMPN 5 Jember in the 2017/2018 academic year that was divided into six classes. To determine the participants of the research, the students were given homogeneity test and then they were analyzed by using ANOVA. The result of the population was homogeneous. Thus, the participants were selected using cluster random sampling by lottery. VIII A was selected as the experimental group which was taught by using cartoon video and VIII E was selected as the control group which was taught listening using audio only. The total number of the respondents was 76 students where class VIII A consisted of 38 students and class VIII E consisted of 38 students. The data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of listening post test, the interview of the English teacher and documentation. The students’ listening comprehension test was administered to make comparison between the two groups after the treatments and the results were analyzed by using ttest formula. The result of analysis indicated that the value of the t-test was 3.52. While the value of t-table of degree of freedom 70 on the 5% significance level is 1.99. It means that the value of the t-test was higher than the value of the t-table (3.52 > 1.99). This result showed that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected, while the alternate hypothesis (Hi) was accepted. It means that there was a significant effect of using cartoon video on the eighth grade students’ listening comprehension achievement at SMPN 5 Jember in the 2017/2018 academic year. After that, the researcher continued the data analysis of the post test scores using the Degree of Relative Effectiveness (DRE) to know how far cartoon video affected the students’ listening comprehension achievement. The result of DRE was 9.2%. It means that the experimental group that was taught listening comprehension using cartoon video got better listening achievement than the control group that was taught listening comprehension without cartoon video (using audio only). Based on the result of this research, the English teacher is suggested to use cartoon videos as media especially in teaching listening. Further, the students are suggested to practice listening by using cartoon video to increase their listening comprehension achievement. Moreover, the future researchers are suggested to conduct a research more deeply with a similar problem but in different research design or different research participants. Further, the future researchers can take longer time allocation for conducting the research to make better observation and valid results (scores) of listening comprehension test.