THE CONTRIBUTION OF PRIOR KNOWLEDGE TOWARD LISTENING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS AT MAN 02 MODEL PEKANBARU

Abstrak / Ringkasan

Based on KTSP of senior high school, listening was one of the abilitiesto master the English that should be taught and learned at the high school level. MAN 02 Model Pekanbaru was one of the schools that used that curriculum and in the syllabus mentioned the standards of competence that the students were able to understand the meaning of short functional text and monologue reports, narrative, and analytical exposition in the context of everyday life. After making observations at MAN 02 Model Pekanbaru, the researcher found that some of second grade students still had weaknesses in listening. These problems included: the students were not able to comprehend the spoken monologue text since they had less experience to different accents, the students were not able to recognize the content of the topic in the spoken monolog text because they had less background knowledge about the topic, the students were not able to recognize the word in the spoken monologue text since they lacked in lexis for the reason that they heard new words they have never listened before.
The purpose of this research was to determine the prior knowledge of the second grade students at MAN 02 Model Pekanbaru, to determine the listening comprehension of the second grade students at MAN 02 Model Pekanbaru, and to determine whether there was or not the contribution of prior knowledge toward listening comprehension of second grade students at MAN Model 02 Pekanbaru.
The type of this research was a correlational reasearch. The test was used to determine the prior knowledge and the listening comprehension of spoken monologue text. Overall the research population was 154 students. Due to the very large number of population, the researcher used a cluster random sampling with a single class as a researched class which was class XI. IPA 1 consisted of 23 students.
In analyzing the data, researcher used the regression formula, the results of the analysis of this research was the probability 0.000 was less than 0.05. Thus, Ho was rejected, whereas Ha was accepted. In other words, there was significant correlation between prior knowledge and listening comprehension. Thus, this research can be concluded that the higher students’ prior knowledge the higher students' listening comprehension.

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