Improving students’ listening comprehension through video listening

Listening is one of four English skills and holds an important role in learning language since it is one of a receptive skill besides reading. If the learners lack listening skill they will not be able to produce speaking skill well. Even though it is important skill, most of the learners find out that it is the most difficult skill to learn because it requires focus and concentration in order to catch the information from the speaker or the audio and sometime they losts their concentration while listening to the speaker. These difficulties in learning listening affect their listening comprehension. Most of learners find it hard to improve their ability to do listening comprehension. In order to improve their listening ability the teacher should use a proper media to teach listening which is video listening because video listening is an audio-visual media which mean it is focuses on the sound and the visual of the learners. This study is a pre-experimental using one-group pretest-postest only. The writer did the treatments four times with different videos based on students’ syllabus. The subject of this study is 20 students of Listening A Class A. The result of the T-test showed that there is a significance improvement in students’ listening comprehension before and after they taught using video listening. The finding of the calculation is 4.328 and the T-table is 2.086 at the level of significance 0,05. Since t-calculation (4.328) is greater than t-table (2.086) so Null Hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) is accepted