IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION BY USING ENGLISH CONVERSATION VIDEO

The main purpose of this research is to find out how far the improvement of students’ listening comprehension after they are taught by using English conversation video to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan is. The population of this research was the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan which consist of 335 students as and the writer was taken 67 students as the sample of this research. The research methodology used in this research was a classroom action research method. And as the instrument for collecting the data the writer uses the written test.From the value of average scores got by the students in the  pre test, that  is 59.78. In posttest 1, the average score is 71.94. In addition, in posttest II, the average score is 79.03. The percentage improvement of the implementation between pretest and posttest 1 is 20.35 %. Moreover, the percentage improvement result of the implementation between pre-test and post-test 2 is 32.21%. It means that there is a significant improvement of the students’ comprehension in listening after they are taught by using English conversation video to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan. At the end of cycle two, the result of the posttest showed that there were 60 students or 82.09 % who passed the KKM. It was significantly improved from the pretest which gained only 11.94 % and in the posttest 1 which had 56.72% improvement. Therefore, based on the class percentage result from the pretest to the posttest 2 in the second cycle, it could be seen that there were 52.94% improvement that this CAR could gain. It was proven that the use English conversation video can improve the students’ comprehension in listening to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Padangsidimpuan. From the analysis of the collected data it has been known that there is a significant improvement of the students’ comprehension in listening after they are taught by using English conversation video. It can be seen from the percentage improvement result of the implementation between pre-test and post-test 2 is 32.21%. So that the hypothesis of this research is accepted.