Daily English Conversation Application as Teaching Media to Enhance Students’ Listening Comprehension at SMP Negeri 35 Makassar.(Supervised by Ramli and A. Hamzah Fansury)

Abstract

This research is aimed to find out whether teaching listening by using Daily English Conversation application for learning English can improve students‟ listening comprehension at the nine grade of SMP Negeri 35 Makassar. The writer applied pre-experimental by using one group pre-test and posttest

design with quantitative approach. The population of this study was the nine grade of SMPN 35 Makassar in the academic year 2020/2021. The writer used cluster random sampling technique. The number of samples was 27 students at class IX.1. The data were obtained from listening test and questionnaire. After conducting the research, the researcher concludes that the used of Daily English Conversation application can increase students listening comprehension, it is proved by the mean score of the students‟ in pre-test and post-tes. The result of the research shows that Daily English Conversation application significantly enhance students‟ listening comprehension after did treatment. The mean score improved from 60.93 in pre-test to 83.15 in post-test. It indicated that the alternative hypothesis (HI) was accepted and, of course, the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It means that Daily English Conversation application could enhance the students‟ listening comprehension in learning English at SMP Negeri 35 Makassar.