The Effectiveness of Subtitled Video in the Teaching of Listening Comprehension

The objective of this study is to get the empirical evidence of the effectiveness of subtitled video in the teaching of listening comprehension to the eighth-grade students of SMP Negeri 103 Jakarta in 2019/2020 academic year. The population of this research were the eight-grade students of SMP Negeri 103 Jakarta in 2019/2020. The research employed pre-experimental design. It involved one class consists of 36 students. They were chosen by using random sampling. The data were collected through listening comprehension pre and post-test and analyzed using SPSS Paired Sample t-test. To fulfill the criteria of a good test, 50 questions were tested, 40 were valid and 10 dropped. Meanwhile, the result of the reliability test was 0.84 which showed the data was reliable. Based on the data analysis, the result of the sig. (2 tailed) was 0.00. because the sig. was lower than 0.05, it means that the H0 was rejected and Hα was accepted. As a result, it proves that using subtitled video was effective in teaching listening comprehension, to the eighth-grade students of SMP Negeri 103 Jakarta in the 2019/2020 academic year