A Study on the Second Year Students’ Listening Comprehension Ability to Comprehend English Narrative Monologue Text at SMPN 12 Padang

Hidayatullah, Hidayatullah and Lailatul, Husna and Lisa, Tavriyanti (2015) A Study on the Second Year Students’ Listening Comprehension Ability to Comprehend English Narrative Monologue Text at SMPN 12 Padang. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to describe the ability of the second year students of SMPN 12 Padang in listening narrative monologue text. In this research, the population was the second year students of SMPN 12 Padang. The number of the population was 250 students. It was divided into eight classes, class VIII 1,VIII 2,VIII 3, VIII 4, VIII 5, VIII 6, VIII 7, and VIII 8 B ,and the size of the sample was 31 students. The writer used cluster random sampling technique to get representative sample. The instrumentation used to get the data was listening test in the form of multiple choice. Before the writer gave listening test to the sample, the test was tried out in advanced. To know the reliability of the test, the writer used Pearson Product Moment formula. It was found that the reliability of the test was .80 and it was categorized as high correlation (see Appendix). The result of this study showed that in general that the second year students of SMPN 12 Padang had moderate ability to listen narrative monologue text. It proved that there were 10 students (31.25%) who had high ability, 20 students (62.50%) who had moderate ability, and 2student (6.25%) who had low ability (see Appendix 11). In details, to listen orientation of narrative monologue text, there were 9 students (28.12%) who had high ability, 19 students (59.37%) who had moderate ability, and 4 students (12.50%) who had low ability (see Appendix 13). The second, to listen complication of narrative monologue text, there were 8 students (25.00%) who had high ability, 20 students (62.50%) who had moderate ability, and 4 students (12.50%) who had low ability (see Appendix 15). The last, to listen resolution of narrative monologue text, 10 students iv (31.25%) got high ability, 21 students (65.62%) got moderate ability, and 1students (3.12%) got low ability (see Appendix 17). The finding of this research leads the writer to conclude that the second year students of SMPN 12 Padang had moderate ability to listen narrative monologue text. In line with such conclusion, the writer suggests to students of SMPN 12 Padang in listening narrative monologue text, Therefore, they should more practice in listening narrative monologue text. The teachers should give more exercise to the students to listen narrative monologue text. They can give enrichment and remedial teaching about listening narrative monologue text to the students.The last, to further writer, the writer suggested to the next writer to do further research on problem faced in listening narrative monologue text.

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