TEACHING LISTENING SKILLS BY USING AMERICAN CARTOON MOVIES TO THE EIGHTH-GRADE STUDENTS IN SMPN 1 SANGALLA’ SELATAN
Abstract
The aim of this research is to find out whether or not American cartoon movie is effective for teaching listening to the eighth-grade students of SMPN 1 Sangalla’ Selatan. This research used quantitative method. The population of this research was the eighth-grade students and the sample was the students in VIII A where the number of students is 25 chosen by random sampling. The design of this research was pre-experimental design. To obtain the data, the writer used 15 items of completion item test in pre-test and post-test. This research finds that the use of American cartoon movie is effective to improve students’ listening skill, especially vocabulary.
The result of data collection in this research shows that mean post-test score is higher (60.44) than the mean pre-test score (20.76). The output of statistical computation was known that the significant value was 0,000. The significant value is less than 0,05 (0,00 < 0,05) which means the alternative hypothesis (H1) was accepted, while the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. In conclusion, American cartoon movie is an effective media in teaching listening skill.
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