Improving Students’ Listening Skill Through Watching Movie at SMK Negeri 1 Patumbak

Abstract

This research was aimed to find out the improvement of the students’ ability in listening skill through watching movie. The subject of this research was a class that is tenth grade students SMK Negeri 1 Patumbak Medan, in academic year 2020/2021. It consisted of 30 students in one class. This research was conducting by using Classroom Action Research (CAR) that consisted of four phase; planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The technique of analyzing data was applied in this research were qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative data was gained from observation, interview and documentation. The quantitative data was gained from tests such as pre-test, post-test I and post-test II. The qualitative data were analyzing from the observation sheet, interview sheet, and documentation of photos. The quantitative data were analyzing from pre-test and post-test. The result of the research showed there was increasing in students’ ability in listening skill through watching movie. It can be seen from the mean of the pre-test was 62, the pot-test I was 72.3 and the post-test II was 81.2. Otherwise the total of percentage from the pre-test was 33%, post-test I was 57% and post-test II was 100%. It showed that the implementation of watching movie could improve students’ ability in listening skill and could effect on students’ understanding in orally English word and vocabulary. The students could more active, enthusiastic and interesting in the learning activity. It can be concluded that the implementation of watching movie was effective to improve students’ ability in listening skill.