Improving listening mastery by using dictogloss technique at the VIII grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Batang Angkola

Khoirunnisah, Fitri (2018) Improving listening mastery by using dictogloss technique at the VIII grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Batang Angkola. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research was done to solve the students’ problems in listening English. The crucial problems that influence the students’ listening were: students’ listening achievement was low, students were passive in the class, students felt confused and difficult for doing their listening task. This research purposed to describe the improvement of listening mastery by using dictogloss technique at the VIII grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Batang Angkola and identified the factors that influence the improving listening mastery by using dictogloss technique at the VIII grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Batang Angkola Related to the purposes of the study, the research design used in this study was action research. In this research, the researcher used two cycles and each cycle consisted of two meetings. The subject of the study was the students of class VIII-2 of SMP Negeri 2 Batang Angkola. in the academic year of 2017/2018. There were 24 students as the participant and also collaborated with English teacher. The data were collected by using techniques of observation note, interview, and test (test cycle 1 and test cycle 2). The researcher analyzed students’ mean score and used t-test to know the significance improvement of students’ listening mastery. The research findings showed that the using of dictogloss technique could improve students’ listening mastery included students were able to listen and doing listening task. Besides, the improvement of students’ listening mastery can be seen from the improvement of the mean score of listening test in the first cycle was 58.95 (16.66%) and listening test in the second cycle was 74.79 (25%). Based on observation note stated the class situation also improved. The improvement of class situation included: Most of students were active and communicative during teaching and learning process and the students began more enthusiastic in listening class.

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