The Effect of Full Video Captioning on EFL Learners' Listening Comprehension

The importance of listening skill in teaching English is not the priority in Indonesian education system. Many teachers think that students can get listening course in the daily conversation, whereas English National Examination as one of the standard graduated competence in Indonesia also examine the students’ listening ability. The presence of full video caption can be an alternative media to ease the students in facing the listening problems. A quasi-experimental research was conducted on73 students from Islamic Senior High School of Almaarif Singosari Malang in eleventh grade Science II and III as the to examine the effect of full video captioning on the EFL students’ listening comprehension. The finding of this research indicated that the t-value > t-table (2.449>1.993). It can be directly defined that there was a significant effect of full video captioning to enhance learners’ listening comprehension. Based on the finding, it is addressed to the English teachers to use full video captioning as one of the teaching media in teaching listening to enhance the students’ listening comprehension. This research also suggests the next researchers to develop the topic and the type of video captioning in any level and major.