THE USE OF PICTURES TO IMPROVE LISTENING SKILL

Abstract

The title of this study is “The Use of Pictures to Improve Listening Skill”. The aim of the study is to find out whether the teaching of listening comprehension by applying pictures media is more effective than without applying picture. The method of this study is descriptive quantitative which is designed to obtain information concerning with the present status of the data. The population in this research was the whole students of an MTsS. In choosing the sample, he selected 60 students of the 2^nd grade (two groups namely VIII-I and VIII-3). Random sampling technique is the technique used by researcher in taking sample for this study. The instrument in collecting the data was test. The writer analyzed the data by applying mean score, and standard deviation at t-score. The result showed that there was a significance difference in score, it can be seen from the result of score of both classes that before applying picture the t-score was 2.33 then after applying picture the t-score 6.49.and the finding reveal that listening by applying English can motivate to students in learning listening.

Keywords: Pictures, listening skill