This research is conducted about “Improving Students Listening
Comprehension through Listening Short Story at the Second Grade of SMPN 2 Tellu Siattinge”. The purpose of this research is the use of short story improve the students
listening comprehension.
In conducting this research the researcher used an experimental design to
gather the data, while a quantitative method was used to analyze them or whichis
study to know whether there was improvement or not to the subjek,that was given
treatment. This research was taken by the second grade of SMPN 2 Tellu Siattinge.
The result of the analysis showed that listening short story very useful toimprove thestudents’ listening comprehension.It can be shown by the diffrences of
the mean score obtained by the students in the post-test (72,27) is greater than the
mean score of the students in pre-test (63,58). The researcher inferred that the students’ listening comprehension improve through listening short story.
A. Conclusions
Based on the data analysis and discussion in the previous chapter, the
researcher concluded the result of this research showed that studying listening
comprehension through listening short story is one material that can improve the students’ listening comprehension. It can be seen of the students of the second grade
of SMPN 2 TELLU SIATTINGE that they have prior to improve of listening
comprehension before applying listening short story is high. The researcher prove
the data that the most of students get good and only one student is very poor score classidication with mean score of students’ pre-test is (63,58). The students listening
comprehension after apying listening short story is significantly improve their
listening comprehension, it is showed by the data that most of students get good score with mean score of students’ post-test is (72,27).
B. Suggestions
In view of the fact that listening short story has been proved to improve the students’ listening comprehension, the reseacher would like to give suggestions as
follows:
1. The teacher could use listening short story as references material in teaching
listening comprehension. Therefore, the teacher were always stimulate the
students’ interest and motivate them in learning listening comprehension. Also
The teacher should be creative moreover, the education system needs them to
improve the teaching skill according to the up to date technology.
Now days, the internet is widely used by lots of people. There are many website
that can be accessed to get new teaching materials.
2. The students of the second grade of SMPN 2 TELLU SIATTINGE can
improve their ability in English, especially listening comprehension.
3. For the other researcher, it is suggested that other researcher may use the
research results as information or a reference to conduct the research with the similar topic in the same design to improve the students’ listening
comprehension with different subject.

ST20180173

173/2018

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