ABSTRACT

THE EFFECT OF EDPUZZLE ON STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPETENCE AT MAN 1 KENDARI

FEBRI ASMAUL SALEH
A1D214154
Using EDpuzzle in the teaching of listening is an alternative tool that can be used by the teachers to increase their teaching and learning process in the classroom. The objective of this study is to find out the effectiveness of using EDPuzzle to improve students’ listening competence at the eleventh grade students of MAN 1 Kendari. This research used quasi experimental design, while the samples of this research were class XI IPA 1 as the experimental class and XI IPA 2 as control class as the representative of the population of all eleventh grade students at MAN 1 Kendari in academic year 2018/2019. The experimental class consisted of 33 students and control class consisted of 32 students. The research instrument was 34 questions of listening competency test. To collect the data, the researcher gave pre-test, taught by using EDpuzzle, and gave post-test. The result showed that students’ mean score in experimental class were categorized average criteria in pre-test and students’ mean score in post-test were categorized high criteria , while students’ mean score in control class were categorized average criteria in both of pretest and posttest. As the result, the mean score of post-test in experimental class was higher than in control class. Based on the calculation of T-test, it showed that the score of tcount was higher than ttable and the pvalue was lower than ρ. Therefore, the null hypothesis was rejected and alternative hypothesis was accepted. It was caused by applying EDpuzzle as media on the listening process in the classroom can help the students learn autonomous. Then, it is helped by video lesson as one of the features of EDpuzzle. It means that, the student did contextual listening. It can be concluded that applying EDpuzzle can improve students’ listening competence at the eleventh grade students of MAN 1 Kendari.

Keywords: EDpuzzle, listening competence.