%0 Generic
%A AKBAR , TANTOWI
%C UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG
%D 2024
%F eprints:82163
%I FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN
%T THE EFFECT OF EXTENSIVE LISTENING USING PODCASTS ON THE  LISTENING ABILITY OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
%U http://digilib.unila.ac.id/82163/
%X This paper focuses on improving listening abilities because it is considered to be  the most important ability among other language abilities. Using a quantitative  research methodology and a one-group pretest-posttest design. The research  instrument comprised of a 40-question multiple-choice test, tested with bivariate  Pearson correlation (Validity) and split-half methods (Reliability), resulting a  valid (33 VALID: 7 INVALID) and reliable (value of 0.820 > 0.80) results. The  study involved 29 high school students from SMAN 9 Bandar Lampung, selected  by their English teacher. In order to analyze the results, SPSS was used to help the  researcher, it was found the mean score of pretest and postest was 61.9540 and  90.69. Normality tests (Shapiro-Wilk) also used to indicate the values of pretest  and postest, with the value of of 0.104 (pretest) and 0.173 (posttest), both > 0.05. While the paired sample t-test yielded a value of 0.00, which is < 0.05. After the  results were analyzed, it was then concluded that, the results considered to be  success (with value of paired sample t-test was 0.00 which means