USING DICTOGLOSS TECHNIQUE FOR IMPROVING LISTENING COMPREHENSION OF EIGHTH GRADERS IN SMP TRI DHARMA PALEMBANG

Abstract

Listening is one of the skills that needed to be integrated in an effective way for the teaching and learning of English to be successful. A technique called Dictogloss was used in this research to find out the significant improvement on listening comprehension and perception of students’ toward dictogloss technique in SMP Tri Dharma Palembang of eighth graders in academic year 2021/2022. Quantitative method was used by the researcher namely pre-experimental design which only used one class. As data source, test and questionnaire were used in this research. The pre-test and post-test was taken from experimental group to find out whether Dictogloss Technique effective to improve the eighth grade student’s at SMP Tri Dharma Palembang. And questionnaire to determine the students’ perceptions on Dictogloss technique in teaching listening. The results showed the experimental class students’ listening improved as indicated by the pre-test and post-test scores. It means t-obtain is bigger than t-table (25.789 > 2.024) and the value of Sig.(2-tailed) was 0.000 < 0.05, means that null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted so there was any significant improvement of students’ listening who taught by Dictogloss. Meanwhile the mean score of questionnaire is 73,44 which showed a positive perception because the result showed the mean score is higher than 60. In short, the use of Dictogloss as the technique to improve students’ listening skill is suggested for teachers in teaching listening.