USING ESL PODCAST TO IMPROVE STUDENTS LISTENING COMPREHENSION: A CASE STUDY OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMA KESATRIAN 1 SEMARANG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2023/2024

Putri, Salsabella Noviyanto. 2023. Using ESL Podcast to Improve Students
Listening Comprehension: A Case Study of The Eleventh Grade Students at SMA
Kesatrian 1 Semarang in Academic Year 2023/2024. Final Project, English
Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education, University of
PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Laily Nur Affini, S.Pd., M.Hum., Advisor II: Sri
Wahyuni, S.Pd., M.Pd.
Keywords: ESL Podcast, Listening Comprehension, English Learning
Listening comprehension is one of the understandings that requires high
understanding and repetition to understand the topic being heard. However, it is
rarely reviewed in schools because, in its implementation, schools must have
adequate facilities. The purpose of this study is to determine students' listening
comprehension before and after treatment using ESL podcasts by Jeff McQuillan
to determine whether or not the use of ESL podcasts effectively improves
listening comprehension. This quantitative research method used one group of
pre-test and post-test samples (34 students) in eleventh-grade SMA Kesatrian 1
Semarang. To test the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of podcasts, researchers
used the t-test. As secondary data, there was an open questionnaire regarding
supporting and inhibiting factors in listening learning. The results showed that
ESL podcasts were effective in improving listening comprehension. This was
obtained from the pre-test (M = 42.3529) and post-test (M = 75.0000) with Sig.
(2-tailed) ,000 <0.05 based on the t-test decision-making shows significance if
<0.05.Moreover, the results of the questionnaire, 27 students felt that their
listening comprehension had improved, and seven students felt an increase in
listening comprehension. The highest factor supporting listening learning is focus,
and the highest inhibiting factor is the lack of vocabulary.