Electronic Theses and Dissertation

This study aims at finding out whether or not podcast improves students’ listening ability in comprehending an oral monolog text. it focused on students’ ability in comprehending a short monolog in form of narrative text. this study was approached through experimental method with one group pretest-posttest design. the data obtained from listening tests involving 24 second grade students showed the score improvements of the mean of pre-test 42.25 to 65.71 on post-test. the data then were tabulated statistically by using t-test. the result of hypothesis testing of this study showed that students’ listening comprehension in terms of narrative text is significantly improved (3.8 t-test > 2.8 t-table). based on the result of this research, it can be concluded that podcast media and task-based listening model can improve students’ ability in listening comprehension.