THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AUDIO BOOK TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILL AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF IPS STUDENTS OF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH KUTOARJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012 / 2013

Abstract

Listening is one of the construction material that should be taken into account of major language skills, namely; listening, speaking, reading and writing. The aim of teaching listening should be enabling our learners to communicate in that language. In this thesis, the researcher chooses the audio book as a media in teaching listening.

The objective of this study is to find out the effectiveness of using audio book in teaching listening to improve students’ listening skill. It means that using audio book can give an improvement or not for the students.

The type of this research is quantitative research. Then the design is one group pre-test – post-test design. The participant of this research is the eleventh grade of IPS students of SMA Muhammadiyah Kutoarjo in the academic year 2012/2013. The researcher took 32 students as the participants

The result of the research found that listening to audio book is effective to improve students’ listening skill. The calculation of t-test shows that the H_a is accepted. It can be proven by the t value is -22.70. It means that -22.70 is lower than 1.697. So, Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected.