| dc.description.abstract | Dictation is an ancient technique in teaching language. It is one of interesting
ways to improve the students’ listening comprehension achievement. Based on the
observation done in SMPN I Ledokombo, it was found that the students were
interested in studying English, but they found difficulties in listening. The eighth
grade students’ listening score was low, the students made mistakes in answering the
questions from the teacher, like inappropriate vocabulary, wrong spelling, could not
catch the content of the text, and they also could not distinguish the pronunciation
well. Further, the dictation technique was once applied by the teacher but not
optimally. In this school, there are four classes and each class has about 40 students.
However, there was only one class that was chosen purposively, that was class VIIIB,
which consists of 40 students. The researcher selected this class based on the
observation during the listening activity that was conducted by the researcher as the
English teacher at this school. It was found that less than 75% students did not
achieve the minimal score that is 64 based on SKM (Standard of minimum passing–
grade or requirement). Considering the problem above, this research was undertaken
to solve the students’ problem by using dictation techniques as a technique in
teaching listening.
The procedures of teaching listening using dictation according to Davis and
Rinvolucri (1988: 8-10), are: choosing the Text, and applying dictation. In this
classroom action research, the technique was divided into note taking and partial
dictation/cloze dictation. Those two techniques were used in each cycle. There were | en_US |
