The Correlation between Watching English Movies Habit and The Listening Achievement of The Freshmen Student At the State University of Malang

ABSTRAK Learning a new language is a difficult process and the need for an effective way to learn this language keeps increasing. Among many skills in learning English listening is one of the most used ones, because listening is one of the two receptive skills other than reading. However, students have difficulties in learning the listening skill. With that condition, it is necessary to investigate the way students learn this skill. Watching an English movie is one of the activities that provide a great deal of an English exposure to the learner, thus investigating the correlation of students’ habit of watching English movies and their listening achievement is necessary. This study aimed at describing whether or not there is a correlation between students’ habit of watching English movie and their achievement in listening class. This study used correlational research design. It is a quantitative research design. This present study was conducted in the Universitas Negeri Malang. The sampling technique of the present study is a random sampling. The total sample of this research is 85 freshmen students, which is more than half of the population. The data were collected using two instruments, questionnaire and the score sheet from the lecturers. The questionnaire has been already tried out and validity tested to make sure the instruments were good. The questionnaire was used to collect the students’ habit degree whereas the score sheet was used to get the students’ listening achievement. The result of this present study shows that there is a positive correlation between watching English movie habit and the listening achievement of freshmen student. The calculated value of correlation coefficient is 0.614, which can be interpreted in strong positive correlation. The result of this study provides a better insight for students, teachers, and lecturers in Indonesia and a theoretical framework for a future researcher. Furthermore, for future researchers may conduct a study on this topic with an improved version of the questionnaire and broader population and a larger sample