The Listening Comprehension of Procedure Text of The Tenth Grade Students of SMA Islam Al-Hikmah Mayong Jepara Taught By Using Talking Stick in the Academic Year 2012/2013

Nor Hayati. 2012. The Listening Comprehension of Procedure Text of The Tenth Grade Students of SMA Islam Al-Hikmah Mayong Jepara Taught By Using Talking Stick in the Academic Year 2012/2013. Skripsi. English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muria Kudus University. Advisors: (i) Dr. Slamet Utomo, M.Pd (ii) Titis Sulistyowati, SS, M.Pd Key words: Listening Comprehension, Talking Stick Technique, experimental research English is an international that easy people from a country communicates with other people from different country who have different language also. Therefore, students are hoping to be able to perform language skill such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. The first way to introduce a language is by listening. Then, we can speak, read and write. Listening is the ability to identify and understand what others are saying. We cannot learn English without listen to it first. Listening activity usually applies through tape recorder or by using language laboratory. However, for the students, listening is including difficult subject. So, in here the students must be listening carefully and pay attention about what they heard. The purpose of the research is to find out whether, there is any significant difference between the listening comprehension of procedure text of the tenth grade students of SMA Islam Al-Hikmah Mayong Jepara before and after being taught by using talking stick in the academic year 2012/2013. This is a quantitative research, which relies on quantitative data based on computation and measurement, operational variables and statistics. The method of the research is experiment. This design of the study is the quasi-experimental research with pre-test and post-test. There was try out before the test, and then it was continued by validity and reliability test. The data were taken from the objective multiple choice tests. The total population is 129 of the tenth grade students of SMA SMA Islam Al-Hikmah Mayong Jepara in the academic year 2012/2013. This research applied a cluster random sampling technique to get samples. The total sample is 33 students from X-1 class. The result of this research shows that the listening comprehension of procedure text of the tenth grade students of SMA Islam Al-Hikmah Mayong Jepara before being taught by using Talking Stick in the academic year 2012/2013 is found the highest score is 92, and the lowest score is 28. And from the calculation the data, the mean is 63 and the standard deviation is 15.40. So, the result is sufficient. Meanwhile, the test result of listening comprehension of procedure text of the tenth grade students of SMA Islam Al-Hikmah Mayong Jepara after being taught by using Talking Stick in the academic year 2012/2013 is found the highest score is 92, and the lowest score is 60. And from the calculation the data, the mean is 74.86 and the standard deviation is 8.35. It is categorized as good. Besides, it can also be concluded that the t (obtained) value 5.26 in the level of significance α = 0.05 and the degree of freedom 32, the t (critical) is 2.04, so the t (obtained) value falls in the critical region. Thus, Ho is refused and accepts the Ha. So, the hypothesis that states, “there is any significant difference of the listening comprehension of the tenth grade students of SMA Islam Al-Hikmah Mayong Jepara between before and after being taught by using Talking Stick in the academic year 2012/2013” is accepted. Based on the result above, the writer concludes that Talking Stick well in improving the listening comprehension. For the teacher, Talking Stick Technique can be applied as an alternative technique in teaching listening process