Improving Students’ Listening Skills by Using Short Animation Video of Eight Grade Students in SMP N 34 Semarang

Fajriani, Fika. 2022. Improving Students’ Listening Skills by Using Short
Animation Video of Eight Grade Students in SMP N 34 Semarang.
Final Project, English Education Program Study, Faculty of Language
and Arts Education, Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Dr. Jafar
Sodiq, S.Pd., M.Pd., Advisor II: Dra. Tarcisia Sri Suwarti, M.Pd.
Keywords: Listening, animation, video
Listening is one of the skills that have an essential role in learning English.
Listening must be considered in learning a language because the more we hear
the language, the faster we acquire it. However, listening is not as easy as it
seems especially for EFL students. Alternative media plays an important role
to assist students more interested and enthusiastic about learning a language.
This study aimed to investigate 1) the students’ listening skills taught without
using animation video 2) the students’ listening skills taught with using
animation video 3) to find out the significant difference between students’
listening skills taught without using animation video and those taught with
using animation video. This is an experimental research and used a quasi�experimental research design which included of two classes, namely control
class, and experimental ones. The sample of this study was 8th grades students
at SMPN 34 Semarang with a total amount of 68 students. Each class
consisted of 34 students. The writer used audiovisuals in the form of short
animation videos. 20 questions were provided to collect the data. The data
obtained were analyzed statistically using SPSS 24. The results indicated that
1) the students’ listening skills taught without using animation video were
classified as good with a score of 70.9 2) the students’ listening skills taught
with using animation video were classified as excellent with a score of 82.9 3)
there was significant difference between students’ listening skills taught
without using animation video and those taught with using animation video.
N-Gain test also showed a mean score of 64 with an effective enough
category. This recognized that animation video was effective in improving
students’ listening skills. Seeing these results, animation video can be
considered to be used as an innovative way of language teaching, especially
listening.