ABSTRACT

Sri Lisda Ayu Bustomi (2024). "The Effect of Using Spotify Application Towards Student's Listening Skill (An experimental study at eleventh grade student of SMAN 1 Cihara Lebak, Banten in Academic Year 2023/2024) "

This research paper aims to investigated the significant effects of using Spotify applications towards listening skills at eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Cihara Lebak-Banten in the Academic Year 2023/2024). The Research paper used a quantitative approach and quasi-experimental design. This research was conducted from Mei until June, and researcher had chosen two classes were control classes and experimental classes. The technique in choosing a sample is a sampling of purposive sampling; the researcher used eleven grade Science 1 (32 students) as class control and eleven grade Science 2 (32 students) as experimental class. The experimental group was taught how to use Spotify applications as a learning medium to improve listening skills, while the control group was taught to use the YouTobe Music application. At the first meeting of the study, the researcher gave a pre-test to the experimental group and the control group to measure the level of student listening skills, Then provide treatment for three meetings and the last meeting of the research researcher gave a post-test to find out the final results and to prove a significant effect after gave treatment used Spotify applications in the experimental group. In analyzing data, the researcher used independent sample t-test by SPSS 25 statistical computing to analyze the hypothesis test. Researcher have found the results of T-Count (-13,900) and two significant sides = 0.001 <α 0.05. From this data it can be interpreted that there is a significant difference between the two groups in obtaining a score, because the result is a significance value of less than 0.05, which means Ha is accepted. Therefore, the researcher concluded that Spotify applications have a significant effect towards student Listening skills. In addition, this Spotify application is not only used effectively in learning skills but can also be used as a learning medium.

Keywords: Listening skills, Spotify application, Media