Improving Students’ Listening Skill Through Spotify in SMP Panca Budi Medan
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.55927/ijsmr.v3i4.146Keywords:
Listening Skill, Spotify Application, Panca BudiAbstract
The aim of this research is to find out the improvement of students’ listening skill through Spotify that focused on listening to English song for identifying what the missing words of the singer said and also focused on the structure of the grammar in the lyrics of the song. The method of this research used quantitative, which involved conducting a pre-experimental method with one group pre-test – post-test design, and collecting the data based on the test. The total sample was 25 students at the ninth-two grade in SMP Panca Budi Medan. The total pre-test score of students was 1090 with the mean score was 43.6. The researchers can conclude that the students’ listening skill were still low. After finding the pre-test result, the researchers gave the treatment and the result of the total score and the mean score improved on the post-test. The students got the total post-test score 2140 with the mean score 85.6. It proved there was significant difference between the pre-test and the post-test before and after giving the treatment. Beside that, the result of statistical analysis proved that the result of the hypothesis test value (Sig.) lower than 0.05. That means H1 (Alternative Hypothesis) was accepted and for Hₒ was rejected (Null Hypothesis). It concluded that the Spotify Application can improve students’ listening skill at the ninth-two grade of SMP Panca Budi Medan
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