Watching Movie Clips as a Strategy to Improve Students’ Listening Skill

Abstract

The aim of this study is to (1) reveal how the process of using watch movie clips as astrategy in improving students’ listening skill in teaching and learning activity. (2) find outwhether the use of watch movie clips as a strategy can improve students’ listening skill ornot.Classroom action research is used in research design. The research was conducted fromFebruary 10th 2016 until February 24th 2016 at the grade twelve students of SMA Negeri1 Pineleng. The research was conducted in two cycles inclusive of two meetings in everycycle. Every cycle consisted of four steps: plan, action, observation, and reflection. Theresearch data were collected by observation and test. The qualitative data were analyzedthrough Miles and Huberman’s Three-Part Analysis, meanwhile the quantitative data wereanalyzed through mean score formula. The result of the data analysis using mean scoreformula indicates that the post-test score in cycle two 83.75 is higher than the pre-test64.75 The research findings show that watching movie clips as a strategy could improvestudents’ listening skill, related to the improvement of: the students’ ability in answeringteacher’s question correctly, the students’ ability in determining the general idea and specificinformation, the students’ ability in making a summary and retelling the story, and thestudents’ score in listening test. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that watchingmovie clips as a strategy can improve students’ listening skill.The research is expected togive input for English teacher in improving students’ listening skill, and to use watchingmovie clips as a strategy in teaching and learning English activity. In addition, to solvestudents’ problem in improving their listening skill.Keywords : Watching; movie clips; improve; listening skill.

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