IMPROVING THE SMK PGRI 3 BADUNG GRADE ELEVEN STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILL THROUGH EXTENSIVE LISTENING

ABSTRACT

This research aims to know the best implementation of Extensive Listening that can improve students’ listening skill at grade eleven of SMK PGRI 3 Badung. The subject of this research is XI MM 2 class that consisted of 31 students. This is a Classroom Action Research (CAR) study that applies the cyclic process includes: planning, action, observation, and reflection. The data collection used observation, interview, and test. The result showed that the best implementation of Extensive Listening was found in the second cycle where drilling vocabulary was applied during pre-listening, practice and adaptation of speech rate were applied in whilst- listening, and exercises were emphasized in post-listening. This syntax was proven to successfully help the students to achieve the learning goal where 96,77% passed the Minimum Mastery Criterion or KKM (75) with the class mean score 89,67. It could be concluded that: 1) drilling vocabulary should be implemented prior to the Extensive Listening main activities to ensure that the students have sufficient vocabulary, 2) teacher should justify the speech rate of the listening material during the Extensive Listening main activities to suit the students’ ability.
Keywords: listening skill, extensive listening, read aloud, repeated listening, narrow listening, vocabulary drilling, speech rate