Fatma, Emilia (2024) The Use Of Podcast On Spotify To Improve Students’ Listening Comprehension at The Eleventh Graders Of SMA N 1 Sekampung East Lampung. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to know whether using Podcast on Spotify improve student’s listening comprehension. The focus on this research is listening comprehension of English students SMA N 1 Sekampung. It is related to the problem identification that the students have difficulties in comprehending listening English test and have lack of vocabularies. Using Podcast on Spotify can be alternated in order to build the student’s active to improve students’ listening comprehension.

The kind of this research was Classroom Action Research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. In this research the students were given pre-test before treatment and post-test after treatment. The subject of this research was 34 students in class XI IPA 2 of SMA N 1 Sekampung. In collecting the data the researcher used test (pre test, post test 1 cycle 1 and post test 2 cycle 2), observation, field note, and documentation.

The results of this research indicated an improvement in listening comprehension of English students at the eleventh grade of SMA N 1 Sekampung. This can be seen from the improvement in the average score of students in the pre- test and post-test. In the pre-test, the students average score was 57,64, and in the post-test I the average score improved to 67,35, and in the post-test II the average score improved to 82,64. Based on this results, it can be concluded that the Podcast on Spotify is one of the media that can improve students' listening comprehension, and this research can be said to be successful because the specified criteria are well achieved.
Keyword: Classroom Action Research, Listening Comprehension, Podcast on
Spotify

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