Improving listening by using multimedia to the second year students of SMP N 5 Bireuen (A Collaborative Classroom Action Research)

ABSTRACTS

Key terms: listening, multimedia

This thesis entitled “Improving listening by using multimedia to the second year students of SMP N 5 Bireuen (A Collaborative Classroom Action Research)”. From the title, the researcher put the problems of this research with two questions namely: “Can the second year students of SMP N 5 Bireuen improve their listening ability when the teacher uses multimedia in teaching listening and what are the advantages of using multimedia in teaching listening to the second year students of SMP 5 Bireuen?”. Based on the research problem, the purpose of this research is “To know if the second year students of SMP 5 Bireuen can improve their ability in listening when the teacher uses multimedia in the teaching and to find out the advantages of using multimedia in teaching listening to the second year students of SMP 5 Bireuen”. To answer the research questions, the researcher used the Classroom Action Research as methodology of the research. This research was conducted at SMP N 5 Bireuen, Kota Juang Sub-district, Bireuen District. The research subject was the students of class II.1. This class consisted of 35 students. The instruments of the research were test and observation sheet. The researcher also distributed the questionnaires to know how long the multimedia influenced the students in learning listening. After the researcher did all steps of action research (cycle I and cycle 2) the researcher found out that the level of students’ achievement in improving English listening had reached the predetermined criteria of success. Therefore, it was concluded that the application of multimedia in teaching and learning process to the second year students of SMP N 5 Bireuen, Kota Juang Sub-district, Bireuen Regency, could improve students’ ability in mastering listening, and it gave some advantages to the students in learning listening.