COMPARING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AUDIO AND VIDEO MATERIALS IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION

The main purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of audio and video materials in students’ listening comprehension. There were two groups of undergraduate students majoring in English who took part in this research. Each of the group consisted of 17 students. Group A was the group of students who were taught using audio-only materials, while Group B was the group of students who were taught using video materials. The data were collected by giving students the same set of questions in the pretest and post-test. The data were then analyzed using t-test formula. Based on the result, it was found that the gained score of the students taught using video was higher than that of the students taught using audio-only materials. However, the finding of this research also showed that there was no significant difference between teaching students using audio and video in listening. It can be seen from the result of to to be 0.67 and the result of ttable was 2.03 with the degree of freedom of 32. Based on the result, the study concluded that the to was lower than ttable which meant that the Null Hypothesis (Ho) was accepted while the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) was rejected. Therefore, it was implied that there was no significant difference between the students’ results of pre- and post-listening tests after getting different methods (video- and audio-based course)