THE EFFECT OF USING VIDEO ON THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMPN 2 SUKOWONO JEMBER IN 2011/2012 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

Listening is one of the language skills that are very important in foreign language learning. In contrast, listening does not get full attention in school. Of all the language skills, listening continues to be the most neglected skill. It is frequently ignored by educational researchers as well as classroom teachers To solve the condition above, 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 understands the materials. The media of teaching listening in EFL classroom that can be used is from visual materials, audio materials, and also audio visual materials. This research only focuses on the use of audio visual media, that is video, in the listening class. The design that was used in this research was quasi experimental research design, with Nonequivalent-Groups Pre-test-Post-test Design to enlarge their listening comprehension achievement; while the control class got no treatment, meaning that the teacher in this class taught listening by audio recording. Based on the analysis of the pre-test and post-test scores with Microsoft exel