The Effect of Implementing the Experiential Learning Model in Listening Comprehension for the Eleventh Graders at SMAN 1 Telaga Biru

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Study investigates the effectiveness of experiential learning in eleventh graders’ listening comprehension at SMAN 1 Telaga Biru, focusing on a class story using language experience. A pre-experimental design involved one class of 27 students. Students’ performance was assessed through pretest and post-test measures. Mean pre-test score was 60, while mean post-test score increased to 80.6, indicating post-test improvement. Findings conclude experiential learning centered on class stories effectively enhances listening comprehension and supports its use as an alternative teaching approach.

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Advances in Language and Literary Studies ISSN: 2203-4714 [www.alls.aiac.org.au](www.alls.aiac.org.au) | The Effect of Implementing the Experiential Learning Model in Listening Comprehension for the Eleventh Graders at SMAN 1 Telaga Biru
Ismail Tahir*
Graduate Program in English Language Teaching, Universitas Negeri Malang, Malaysia Correspond Author: Ismail Tahir, E-mail: [ismailtahir43@yahoo.com](ismailtahir43@yahoo.com) | | | --- | --- | | ARTICLE INFO | ABSTRACT
This study is aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the experiential learning in listening comprehension with the focus on the implementation of the class story using language experience at SMAN 1 Telaga Biru. As the pre-experimental research, this study involved one class consisted of 27 students in the eleventh graders. However, most of the students of the eleventh gradersin this school have some problems in their listening comprehension. This current research, therefore, aims at finding the result of the students’listening comprehension by using experiential learning in focusing on the class story using language experience for the eleventh graders at SMAN 1 Telaga Biru and defining the students’ achievement in listening comprehension by using experiential learning focusing on the class story using language experience. This study also explored the learners’ listening comprehension by analyzing the result of the students’ pretest and post-test. It was found that the mean of the pre-test was 60 while the mean of the post-test was 80,6 . By analyzing this result, it indicated that the post-test was higher than the pre-test. In conclusion, the finding of this research showed that teaching listening in the eleventh graders of SMAN 1 Telaga Biru using experiential learning in focusing on the class story using language experience was effective to teach students’ listening comprehension. Therefore, it can be suggested that it was an alternative way to use of experiential learning focusing on the class story using language experience in teaching listening. | | Article history
Received: June 16, 2017
Accepted: September 13, 2017
Published: October 31, 2017
Volume: 8 Issue: 5
Advance access: October 2017 | | | Conflicts of interest: Non
Funding: None | | | Key words:
Experiential Learning, Listening Comprehension, EFL Learners,
EFL Classroom,
Pre-experimental Study, Language Experience | | INTRODUCTION Background of the Study As EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners, students may have daily opportunities for listening and speaking in English as they interact with their teachers and friends/classmates in the school or with their family members at their home and community members in their environment because if the learners want to learn to speak, they should learn first how to understand the spoken language they listen to (Ahmadi, 2016) . In relation to listening, it is sometime nonface-to-face such as watching movies, broadcasting media, listening to the loudspeaker audio or listening to the phone. On the other hand, it is also occurred in face-to-face by interspersing with speaking such as having a discussion with teachers, students or other people or having social conversations with them and having some kinds of conversations with many people in various service providers. Therefore, listening can be explained as an active ability (Rost, 2009. cited in Ahmadi, 2016) . In getting the purpose of listening, the learners, especially EFL learners, of course, have a purpose and a communication task. In this situation, they need to be able to understand what the speakers are saying in order be comprehended in listening. They also need to be able to understand the question(s) if the speakers ask them so that they can be able to respond appropriately to face-to-face communication. Related to the listening purposes, the learners have to be careful in listening to every word/sentence they listen. It is aimed to avoid t

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What is the main purpose of the study?

To investigate the effectiveness of experiential learning in students’ listening comprehension, with a focus on implementing class stories using language experience at SMAN 1 Telaga Biru.

How were students’ listening comprehension results measured?

Through a pretest and a post-test analyzing the students’ listening comprehension outcomes.

What were the pre-test and post-test mean scores?

The mean pre-test score was 60, and the mean post-test score increased to 80.6.

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