Use of Movie Trailers as Learning Media to Improve Students Listening Comprehension

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate movie trailers as learning media to improve students listening comprehension among the tenth-grade students of SMK Negeri 4 Kendari. This study's objective was to determine whether there was an improvement in students' listening comprehension using movie trailers among the tenth-grade students of SMK Negeri 4 Kendari. This study employed a descriptive quantitative design. The population of this study was 88 students, while the sample was 27 students taken from class "Tehnik Komputer dan Jaringan" (TKJ) C using a purposive sampling technique. The researcher used listening tests as the instrument of this study. The data was analyzed by using Microsoft Excel Software and SPSS 2.0. The result of this study showed that students' pre-test average score was 53.62, and the post-test average score was 74.55. In addition, the value of sig. one-tailed was 0.00, which was less than the alpha value (0.05), and tcount obtained was 12.674, which was more than ttable at the 1.706 level of significance to the line df= 26. Therefore, it could be concluded that there was a significant improvement in using movie trailers on students' listening comprehension in the tenth grade of SMK Negeri 4 Kendari. The obtained score of students in the pre-test and post-test proved it.