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The Listening Comprehensionof the Fourth Semester Students of Muria Kudus University in Academic Year 2011/2012 with Different Reading Activities.
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Institusion
Universitas Muria Kudus
Author
Udayanti, Ina
Subject
Bahasa Inggris 
Datestamp
2013-05-15 08:06:24 
Abstract :
Listening is one of skill that every people must have. The purpose of listening is to get the information from the sound streaming into the sense of hearing. But, there are still many who have lack of listening skill than other skill. The fourth semester students still feel difficult to hearing the sound. If the become a good listener, they can speak automatically. Finally, they feel that they need to read some books to increase their pronunciation and vocabulary, so it can help them to become a good listener. Then, the objective of the research is to find out whether there is a significant difference in the listening comprehension between the students who have high and low in activity of reading. Meanwhile, this research belongs to quantitative descriptive ex-post facto research with the subject of the research is the fourth semester students who join in listening comprehension class of English Education Department of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2011/2012. In deciding the sampling, the researcher used a proportional random sampling technique. There are six classes of listening class, and the researcher take 10 students in each class. So, total of the sample is 60 students. In the result, from the total of the sample, there are 28 students who belong to high reading activity and 32 students who have low reading activity. For high reading activity classification has good result with Mean score is 73.21 and low reading activity classification has sufficient result with Mean score is 68.4. Then, on the level significance 0.05 the result is t0 = 4.477 >tt = 2.021 and on the level of significance 0.01 is t0 = 4.477 >tt = 2.704. It can be concluded that there is significant difference in the listening comprehension of the fourth semester students who have high and low reading activity of English Education Department of Muria Kudus University in academic year 2011/2012. It means that the students who have high reading activity are better than the students who have low reading activity in the listening comprehension. Based on the result of this research, the researcher could state that the reading activity is one of cause of the listening comprehension. So, for the students in high and low reading activity, they have to increase their reading activity minimally in reading material book of study to help them in understanding the material, add their knowledge and increasing their listening comprehension.  
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Universitas Muria Kudus