THE EFFECT OF USING CARTOON VIDEO ON THE EIGHT YEAR STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT AT SMPN 1 ROWOKANGKUNG LUMAJANG

Abstract

This research design was a quasi experimental research. The purpose of this research was to measure whether or not there was a significant effect of using Cartoon Video on the Eight Year Students’ Listening Comprehension Achievement at SMPN 1 Rowokangkung Lumajang. The area of this research was SMPN 1 Rowokangkung Lumajang. It was chosen purposively because the use of Cartoon Video had never been applied in teaching learning process of English in this school. Permission was granted by the Principal of SMPN 1 Rowokangkung Lumajang to conduct the research at this school and the English teacher agreed to conduct the present experimental research. The population of this research is the eight year students of SMPN 1 Rowokangkung in the 2011/ 2012 academic year. To know the homogeneity of the population, the result of UAS 2011/2012 academic year was analyzed statistically using ANOVA formula and the result showed that F-computation (0.002) was lower than that of F-table (2.37). It means that the condition of the whole eight year students of SMPN 1 Rowokangkung Lumajang was heterogeneous or there was significant difference mean of the five existing classes. Two classes from the population that had the closest mean differences were chosen. The lottery was done to determine the experimental group (VIIIA) and the control group (VIIID). The total number of the sample was 51 students that consisted of 25 students of VIIIA as the experimental group that was taught by using cartoon video, and 26 students of VIIID as the control group that was taught by using the audio. The primary data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of Listening test. The supporting data were gained from interview and documentation. The students’ listening achievement was measured through the post test to make comparison of the main score between the two groups after the treatment was done, and the result was analyzed by using t-test formula. The result of the analysis indicated that the value of t-computation was 2.52 while the t-table was 2.02 with the degree of freedom 49 on the 5% significant level. It means that the value of tcomputation was higher than that of the value of t-table. This means that the null hypothesis (H ):” there is no significant effect of using cartoon video on the eight year students’ listening comprehension achievement at SMPN 1 Rowokangkung Lumajang” was rejected. On the other hand, the alternate hypothesis (H 0 ):“there is a significant effect of using cartoon video on the eight year students’ listening comprehension achievement at SMPN 1 Rowokangkung Lumajang” was accepted. Based on the result of the analysis of this research, the English teacher is advised to also apply cartoon video, especially in teaching English Listening to vary the media used in teaching listening skill. Further, the students are suggested to actively involve themselves in the teaching and learning process. To the future researchers it is hoped that the result of this research can be used as a consideration by other researchers to conduct further research on different language skills and component, in different research area or research design to improve the students’ listening comprehension achievement.