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IMPROVING STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILL FOR JUNIOR HIGH

SCHOOL

(An Quasi-Experimental Study Toward Second Grade of SMP Islam Druju)

THESIS

By:

Siti Lailatul Khotijah

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

2017

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Mottos

“A Big Journey Begins With Little Step”

DEDICATIONS

This thesis is dedicated to my beloved parents, my lovely

sister, my beloved friends, and my classmate English

Language Education Department A class 2013. Their sincere

kindness and prayers become big motivation to achieve my

best and bright future.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER .............................................................................................................. i

APPROVAL ....................................................................................................... ii

LEGALISATION ............................................................................................... iii

MOTTOS AND DEDICATIONS ...................................................................... iv

LETTER OF AUTHENTICITY ....................................................................... v

ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................... vi

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................... vii

TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................... viii

LIST OF TABLE .............................................................................................. .xi

LIST OF APPENDICES .......................................................................................xii

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Research Background .............................................................................. 1

1.2 The Statement of Problems ...................................................................... 4

1.3 The Hypothesis ....................................................................................... 4

1.4 The Purpose of Study .............................................................................. 4

1.5 The Significant of Study .......................................................................... 4

1.6 Scope and Limitation ............................................................................... 5

1.7 Definition of Key Term ........................................................................... 5

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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 The Definition of Listening ..................................................................... 6

2.1.1 Difficulties in Listening Skill ......................................................... 7

2.1.2 The Lack of Concentration and Students’ Motivation .................... 8

2.2 The Definition of Song ............................................................................ 11

2.2.1 The Use of Song as Authentic Listening Material ................................. 13

2.3 The Selection of Song for Classroom Activity ......................................... 14

2.4 Listening Activity for Song ..................................................................... 15

2.5 The Previous Study ................................................................................. 17

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

3.1 The Research Design .............................................................................. 18

3.2 The Research Subject .............................................................................. 19

3.3 The Data Collection ................................................................................. 19

3.3.1 The Research Instrument ............................................................... 19

3.4 The Data Analysis ................................................................................... 21

CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Research Findings ................................................................................... 23

4.1.1 The Result of Pretest ...................................................................... 23

4.1.2 The Treatments .............................................................................. 24

4.1.3 Posttest of the Experimental and Control Group ............................. 28

4.1.4 The Result of Hypothesis testing ................................................... 30

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4.2 The Discussion ........................................................................................ 32

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

5.1 Conclusion ............................................................................................. 35

5.2 Suggestions ............................................................................................. 36

REFERENCES ......................................................................................................... 38

APPENDICES ........................................................................................................... 41

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 1 The Result of Pretest ..........................................……………………….23

Table 2 The Treatments Activity ............................................…………………. 24

Table 3 The Result of Posttest ................................................…………………. 28

Table 4 Normality Tes ............................................................…………………. 24

Table 5 Lavene Statistic ..........................................................…………………. 31

Table 6 Independent Test ........................................................…………………. 32

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LIST OF APPENDICES

Appendix I Lesson Plan ……………………………………………................42

Appendix II Song Lyric ..……………………………………………...............50

Appendix III Pretest and posttest .……………………………………...............53

Appendix IV Result Pretest and posttest .……………………………...............55

Appendix V T-test Computation .……………………………………..............57

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