Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Listening is one of four language skills that should be taught by students in junior high school, and the ability to comprehend spoken narrative text is a standard competence for eighth grade students. thus, this study was conducted with the aim at investigating the use of animation movie in developing students’ comprehension in spoken narrative text to see whether or not the media enable students to identify the main idea, making inference, and to understand the content of the text. the writer adopted experimental approach type one-group pretest-posttest design to obtain the data in this study. the eighth grade students of smpn 16 banda aceh were chosen as the sample of this study, they were chosen by using purposive sample. two tests were given to collect the data needed. pre-test was conducted to know the students’ score before they were taught by using animation movie while post-test was conducted to see their improvement afterward. the result of this study show that students’ mean score in post-test (73.33) was higher than pre-test (55.83). the result revealed that t-test is 9.56 and t-table is 2.07, with the degree of freedom 23. thus, the alternative hypothesis is accepted. it means that animation movie is an effective media to be used in teaching listening process, and can be one of alternative aids used by teacher in developing students’ listening ability of spoken narrative texts.