Improving Listening Comprehension Through Biography Movie Among Year Eleven Students

The purpose of this research is to solve students' problem in improving listening comprehension, particularly their ability in comprehending specific information and identifying words from listening materials. Moreover, this research is intended to find out how does biography movie can improve the listening comprehension to the year eleven students of SMA Mujahidin Pontianak in academic year 2012 – 2013. The method used in this research is classroom action research in which the researcher concerned with the improvement of students' listening comprehension in every meeting. This research was conducted in three cycles which consist of one meeting each. In collecting the data, the researcher used achievement test, field notes and observation sheets. The performance test which was used in this research was kind of listening test. The researcher then used scoring rubric to score the students' achievement in listening test. The observation sheets were used to collect qualitative data which was everything happened in teaching and learning process. The improvement of students' listening comprehension could be seen from the result of every meeting