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The Use Of Top-Down Approach In Teaching Listening Through Short Stories Budi Kadaryanto; C. J. Aryanti Cori
LINGUISTIKA Vol 2, No 1 (2011): April
Publisher : Universitas Bandar Lampung

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Listening comprehension is the first skill that students should master, because before someone understands and starts to speak, lie or she has to hear sounds, words, or speech pattern. Listening is considered as a difficult language skill since it involves some aspects of the language, for example, vocabulary, understanding the sound, grammar, getting, the mainL_ understandingidea, specific information and reference. The teaching of listening in formal schools is still considered unsuccessful for that it tends to make students boring. Therefore, English teachers should provide more challenging and interesting listening activities. Teaching listening withZ7short stories is said to be one of the way to reduce students boredom and to increase students listening comprehension.For the above reasons, this research was intended to find out whether there was significant improvement of students listening comprehension in short stories after being taught through top - down approach. This research was done in a group pretest posttest design. The population of this research was the eleventh grade in SMA YP UN ILA Bandar Lampung. The sample of this research was XI IPA I and was selected by using random sampling technique. In collecting the data, the researcher administered the pretest, the treatments and posttest. The data was analyzed by using repeated measure t-test. In which the significance was determined by p<0.05. The result of t-test computation showed that (-ratio was higher than t-table (t,>t,.J, that is, (29.330>2.021), it can be concluded that there was a significant improvement of students listening comprehension after being taught short stories through top - down approach. This means that teaching listening through short stories in a top-down approach was applicable to improve sttideiitslistening omprehension ability.
The Use Of Pictured Stories In Improving Students Vocabulary Achievement Budi Kadaryanto; Emi Handayani
LINGUISTIKA Vol 2, No 2 (2011): Oktober
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The objective of this research was to find out whether there was any significant improvement of the students’ vocabulary achievement at the eighth grade of SMP Tunas Harapan, Kedaton, Bandar Lampung after they were taught by using pictured stories and to investigate the process of teaching vocabulary by using pictured stories. This research used one group pre test post test design. The sample of this research was VIII A at Tunas Harapan, Kedaton, Bandar Lampung, in academic year 2010/2011. Objective vocabulary test was used as the instrument of the research. The data were analyzed by using repeated measure t- test in which the significance was determined by p<0.05. The result suggested that the difference of the mean score from pretest and posttest was 16.4. Under SPSS test, the difference was significant, in which the p value was 0.000, which was less than 0.05. This indicates the significant improvement of students vocabulary achievement. In addition the teaching learning process using pictured stories indicates that can improve the students involvement and students activeness in the process of teaching learning vocabulary.