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Improving Students Listening Ability Through Scooby Doo: The Of The Luna Ghost English Subtitle Movie
Listening skill is important for students. However, listening skills tend to
be ignored in the teaching and learning process. This is due to several reasons
including lack of facilities, lack of teacher competence and lack of motivation
from students themselves. Teachers as instructor in teaching listening need to
design creative education exercises as much as possible to address these issues in
order to inspire their students to study more diligently. This study aimed to
investigate how the use of Scooby Doo “The Case of Luna Ghost” English
subtitle movie can improve the students’ listening ability.
This study applied Classroom Action Research (CAR) and was conducted
at SMA Negeri 2 Batu. Action Research consists of four major interconnected
activities (Burns, 2010). Those are planning, action, observation and reflection.
The population of this research is all the first-grade students of SMA Negeri 2
Batu. There were 26 students in total. There are three instruments used which
include: test, observation, and survey on students’ interest and motivation. The
survey was conducted through online.
Based on the findings, the implementation of Scooby Doo “The Case of
Luna Ghost” English subtitle movie in the first cycle was failed to improve the
students’ listening skill. The students’ seemed to have difficulty in terms of
vocabulary. Therefore, in the second cycle the implementation of Scooby Doo
“The Case of Luna Ghost” English subtitle movie was emphasized on the
vocabulary aspect. The improvement of the students’ listening skill was seen on
the second cycle. On the second cycle, 23 or 88% of the students gained the score
above the minimum mastery criterion. So, it had met criterion of success that 75%
the students must obtain the score above the minimum mastery criterion.
Moreover, during the learning process the students also actively followed the
learning process. Moreover, based on the five indicators investigated in the
observation which include: paying attention to the teachers’ explanation, being
enthusiastic during the learning process, asking question, responding the question,
and accomplishing task, the score obtained was categorized as excellent. The
result above also supported by the result of survey on students’ interest and
motivation. The students argued that the learning activities done using “Scooby
Doo “The Case of Luna Ghost” English subtitle movie” could increase the
students’ interest and motivation.
The learning listening process that was done through “Scooby Doo “The
Case of Luna Ghost” English subtitle movie” is seen to be effective. It showed
that “Scooby Doo “The Case of Luna Ghost” English subtitle movie” is able to
improve students’ listening skill. It is expected that the findings of this study can
enrich the information and references for further researcher who want to conduct
the similar study. It is suggested for the future researcher to conduct a similar
study using different method and adding number of instruments since the findings
of this study still have a lot of weaknesses.
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