IMPROVING STUDENTS’ LISTENING ABILITY THROUGH DICTATION TECHNIQUE AT THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS

Fatimah Mulya Sari, Muhammad Sukirlan, Ramlan Ginting Suka

Abstract


The objective of this research is to know whether there is a significant improvement of the students’ listening ability after being taught through dictation technique. The population of this research was the first year students of SMA Negeri 1 Tanjungbintang that consists of seven classes and two classes were chosen as the experimental class and the try-out class. One group pre-test and post-test design was carried out in this research. The result of the research proved that there is a significant difference of students’ achievement in listening ability before and after being taught through dictation technique. The total score of pre-test was 2068 and post-test was 2592. The increase was 524. The mean score of pre-test was 57.44 and post-test was 72.00. By comparing between the mean of pre-test and post-test, it can be found that the increase of the mean was 14.56. It proved that the students’ scores increase significantly because p<0.05 (p=0.000). Based on the data, it can be concluded that there is a significant difference of students’ achievement in listening ability before and after being taught through dictation technique. Therefore, dictation technique is recommended to be used by teachers to improve the students’ listening ability.
Keywords: dictation technique, improvement, listening ability.

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