THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIAL FOR TEACHING NARRATIVE TEXT IN IMPROVING STUDENTS LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT SMP NEGERI BESTAUMUTI IN TOBU SUB-DISTRICT SOUTH CENTRAL TIMOR
Audio-Visual is a component that contains elements of sound and image. The aims of this study were to find out the usefulness and effectiveness of using audiovisual materials in teaching narrative text. The writer formulated research questions namely does the audio-visual material in teaching narrative text can improve students’ listening comprehension and how far the effectiveness of using audio-visual material in teaching narrative text for increasing students listening comprehension. This research was an experimental research. There were two kinds of test that used, those were pre-test and post-test. It considered 57 students. The data was using T-test formula by comparing the mean score of pre-test and post-test. The significance level was set up 5%. The result of the research showed that, first, the students listening comprehension was difference before and after teaching using audio-visual material. The mean of pre-test was 33,50 while the mean of post-test was 87,00. The difference between pre-test and post-test mean was 43,5. Second, the result showed that t-test (to) 17,71 was higher than t-table (tt) 2,09 with the degree of freedom (df) 19. Therefore, there was significant difference after teaching using audio-visual material toward students’ listening comprehension. The effect size of experiment test was 4,30 which showed that using audio-visual material in teaching narrative text gave strong effect on students listening comprehension. It can be proved that audio-visual material is effective and can be used to improve students listening comprehension at SMP Negeri Bestaumuti in the academic year 2021.