THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GROUP WORK IN TEACHING LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Yuria Viani, Muhammad Sukirlan, Budi Kadaryanto

Abstract


Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah ada peningkatan pemahaman mendengarkan siswa dan untuk meneliti masalah-masalah yang dihadapi siswa yang diajarkan melalui teknik grup kerja. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah kelas VIIIU2 sebagai kelas try-out dan kelas VIIIIT sebagai kelas penelitian. Penelitian ini menggunakan model one group pretest posttest melalui tiga kali pengajaran. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa nilai rata-rata pretes siswa adalah 62.28 dan nilai postes adalah 70.24. Ini artinya diperoleh peningkatan 7.80. T-test menyatakan bahwa hasil t-ratio lebih tinggi daripada t-table (6.748>2.060) dengan signifikansi (p<0.05, p=0.000). Permasalahan pada siswa pada pengajaran pemahaman mendengarkan adalah kosakata, daya ingat mereka, kemampuan mendengarkan, dan tingkat kenyamanan. Hal ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat peningkatan dari pemahaman mendengarkan siswa setelah diajarkan menggunakan grup kerja.

 

The objectives of the research are to find out whether the improvement of the students’ listening comprehension and to invistigate the problems faced by the students who are taught through group work technique. The sample of the research was VIIIU2 as try out class and VIIIIT  as experimental class. This research applied one group pretest posttest design through three times treatments. The data were obtained by using Repeated Measured T-test, the students’ mean scores of pretest was 62.28 and the posttest was 70.24. It means, the gain is 7.80. The t-test also revealed that the result was t-ratio is higher than t-table (6.748>2.060) with the level of significant (p< .05, p = .000). The problems of the students in teaching listening comprehension were vocabulary, their memory, their ability in listening, and comfortability level. It can be concluded that there is an improvement of the students’ listening comprehension after being taught using group work.


Keywords: group work technique, listening comprehension, narrative text


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