The Effect of Using Directed Listening Thinking Activity (DLTA) Strategy on Students’ Listening Skills and Vocabulary Mastery in SMP IT Al – Ikhlas Pekanbaru

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This research aims to find out whether there is a significant effect of using
Directed Listening Thinking Activity (DLTA) strategy on students’ listening skills and
vocabulary mastery in SMP IT Al Ikhlas Pekanbaru. It is a quasi- experimental design.
The research subject is students in grade 8 in the school. Two classes were involved,
namely a class as the experimental class and a class as the control class. The sample
consisted of 47 students who were taken from 95 students in the population. In
collecting the data, a set of tests and observation were used. To analyze the collected
data, independent samples t-test and paired samples t-test formulas were used, including
the effect size formula. As a result, it is found that the significant values were 0.000
and 0.000. The values are smaller than p value (0.005). It can be inferred that there is a
significant effect of using the strategy on the students’ listening skills and vocabulary
mastery in the pre- and post-tests in experimental class. Besides, the values of eta
square were 0.92 and 0.78. In other words, there is a significant effect of using the
strategy on listening skills and vocabulary mastery of descriptive texts and its effect is
in middle-effect category. In conclusion, the strategy can be implemented for teaching
listening and vocabulary in the school.

Keywords: DLTA (Directed Listening Thinking Activity), listening skills, vocabulary
mastery

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