Skripsi English
Podcasting on Students Listening Comprehension
Listening is gathering information and knowledge from the sounds that involving
ear and brain to process it. Listening is important to be learned by students in
learning English language. However, students find it hard to comprehend and
understand the language, because students are not accustom to the language. To
help students to accustom to the language and improve listening skill needs proper
medium in learning activity. Using podcast as medium in learning listening is
expected to help the students accustom to the language. Podcast (iPod and
broadcast) is a program such as talk or music in form audio or video that available
online that can be downloaded and has various topics. Therefore, the aim of this
research is to investigate whether podcast has an effect on students’ listening
comprehension or not. The research was conducted in SMK Putra Pakuan that
involved 33 students of X TKJ as the sample from the total population 135 students
of tenth grade. The sample taken by using cluster sampling technique. Pre-
experimental method and one group pre-test post-test design were used. T-test
formula is used to analyze the data. Based on data calculation, the result of t-test
value is 4.26. Meanwhile, t-table value is 2.03 at significant level 0.05 with the
degree of freedom (df) is 32. It shows that the t-test value is higher than t-table value
(4.26>2.03). It means the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Therefore, it can
be concluded that podcast has an effect on students’ listening comprehension
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