The Effectiveness Of Podcast Application In 2 The Teaching Of Listening

Abstract

A Podcast application is software that can be downloaded from play store 8 or app store. A podcast is a series of spoken, audio episodes, usually targeted on a 9 selected topic, or theme. A podcast allow students to practice English more 10 comfortably. By using podcast applications as an effective media to develop the 11 students’ listening skills. 12 The objective of this research is to find out the effectiveness of podcast 13 application to developing students’ listening skills. The sample of this research 14 consisted of 25 students at IX grade of MTS Salafiyah Siman. The instrument of 15 this research is a test. The test used an objective written test that included multiple 16 choices. The quantitative data were in the form of students’ listening scores. The 17 scores are comparing from pre-test and post-test. 18 To achieve the purpose of this study, the data were analyzed by using 19 paired sample t-test in the SPSS program. After analyzing the test, the researcher 20 found that the mean score of the post-test is greater than the pre-test (77.88 for the 21 post-test and 57.64 for the pre-test). And the results of calculating using paired t22 test, the results obtained are sig.2 tailed of .000 < .05 with t-count of -9.276 which 23 means that the average before using podcast application is lower than the average 24 after using podcast. Thus, podcast application gives effective learning in the 25 students’ listening skill. 26 Suggestion for other researcher, this study only obtained data from 25 27 students, which if using the paired sample t-test it must be more than 30 students. 28 There was one of the weaknesses of this study. So for the next researcher, should 29 increase the number of samples to at least more than 30. If the samples are below 30 30, it must use the non-parametric test in the SPSS. Therefore, the next researcher 31 should consider the conditions, time and, equipment in recording the material 32 because it is directly related to the clarity of the sound produced. And other 33 variables that can be investigated further related to the podcasts are learning 34 styles, concentration, and self-regulated learning.