Effect of Audio Visual Teaching Media on StudentsListening Comprehension

Abstract

This research is aimed to find out the effect of Audio Visual Teaching Media on the studentsListening Comprehesion.In doing this research, the researcheruses some theories namaely: Sapir (1949), Erichah (2011), Hemei (1997),King (2002), Brown G (1990),Brown D (2000),Martinez (2010), Saricoban (1999), Imhof (2011), Cohen, Manion, and Morrison (2007), Rasul, Bukhsh, Batool (2011), and Bretz (1971). In this study,the first year students of English Study Program FKIP Universitas HKBP NommensenPematangsiantarare taken as subjects. This research use experimental research design. To get the data, the researcheruses Video of Marthin Luther King,Jr‟s Speech which is titled “I have a dream”. The students inthe experimental group listened and saw the video. But those in the control group simply listened to the speech. After analyzing the data it was found out that the t-count is higher than t–table (3.17>1.67). Therefore,the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted.It‟s found that using audio-visual teaching media is more effective than theconventional teaching media onthe students listening Comprehension.