THE EFFECT OF USING FLASH VIDEOS ON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMPN 6 JEMBER

Abstract

SUMMARY The Effect of Using Flash Videos on the Eighth Grade Students’ Listening Comprehension at SMPN 6 Jember; Yuli Susanti, 080210401057; 2013:37; English Language Education Study Program, Language and Arts Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Jember University Listening is one of the language skills that should be mastered by the students in Junior High School. There are many kinds of techniques and media which can be used in listening class to help the students understand the listening material given. One of them is using flash video as teaching media. Flash video was used in this research because of some reasons. First, it is interesting and it helps the students to understand the material easier. Second, it is easy to be controlled by the teacher. The last, it is easy to be found and downloaded. Flash video itself has never been applied by the English teacher in listening class. This research was a quasi experimental research. The purpose of this research was to know whether or not the use of flash video has a significant effect on the eighth grade students’ listening comprehension achievement at SMPN 6 Jember. The area of this research was SMP Negeri 6 Jember. It was chosen purposively because the use of flash video had never been applied in teaching learning process in this school. The respondents of this research were the eighth grade students of SMPN 6 Jember in the 2012/ 2013 academic year. The research respondents were determined by cluster random sampling through a lottery. The total number of the respondents was 75 students that consisted of 37 students of VIIIC as the experimental group taught by using flash video, while the control group consisted of 38 students of VIIIB taught by using audio recorded material. The data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of listening comprehension test, interview, observation and documentation. The listening xiii comprehension test was collected from the pre test and post test to make comparison of the gained scores between the two groups after the treatment, and the result was analyzed by using t-test formula. While the interview, observation, and documentation was done to support the primary data. Interview was used to get the information about the listening activities done by the English teacher dealing with the technique and media used in the classroom, the students’ experience in listening class, and the use of flash video in listening class. Observation was used to support the research finding during the treatment. Documentation was used to get the information about the total number of the students and the name of the respondents. The primary data which was collected by using pre-test and post-test showed that pre-test and post-test different