Improving Students' Listening Comprehension Achievement by Using Fairytale Animation Videos at A Private Islamic Junior High School

Abstract

This classroom action research was devoted to escalating the listening comprehension and engagement of ninth-grade students at a private junior high school. This was achieved by incorporating fairytale animation videos into regular English lessons. Initial evaluations showed that the students had an average score of 54.13, with only 13% achieving the minimum standard score of 70. This study gleaned data from listening tests and observations, carried out over two cycles. Each cycle consisted of two implementation meetings and one test. In conjunction with the test, observation was performed using checklist involving four indicators to evaluate student engagement. The success criteria were determined as 60% of students scoring ≥70 and 60% actively participating in listening activities. The data in Cycle 1 exhibited that 54.34% of students were actively engaged, and 34.78% reached the minimum standard score of 70. Following the reflection in Cycle 2, some revisions were made to the instructional strucutre, after which active engagement rose to 80.43%, and 69.56% of students attained ≥70 in the subsequent cycle,. These improvements corroborated the achievement of the success criteria in Cycle 2, validating the effectiveness of using fairytale animation videos to escalate listening comprehension and student engagement.