Problem Formulation Objective of the Study Benefits of the Study

commit to user 8 want, here the researcher only limits the research on listening narrative YouTube video.

B. Problem Formulation

The research problems here can be formulated as follow: 1. Does and to what extent YouTube video improve listening comprehension of grade 10 students of SMA Batik 1 Surakarta in 20102011? 2. What happens when YouTube video is implemented in the listening classes?

C. Objective of the Study

The objectives of this research are: 1. To describe whether or not and to what extent YouTube video can improve listening comprehension of the grade 10 students of SMA Batik 1 Surakarta in 20102011. 2. To identify what happens when YouTube video is implemented in the listening classes.

D. Benefits of the Study

From the research result, it is expected that there will be benefits given to the teachers, the students and school. 1. For the teacher This study can be used to understand about the students’ listening comprehension and the way of teaching and learning listening innovatively so that the learning quality will improve. commit to user 9 2. For students This study will be helpful for them in understanding the importance of listening comprehension to gain more information. Besides, applying YouTube video can increase students’ motivation joining listening class. Furthermore, they also become more active in paying attention to the lesson. 3. For institutions The result of the study can be a parameter in the efforts of learning innovation development for the other teachers and also can motivate them to develop another innovation in different strategy. It also will be helpful in arranging the curriculum of the study that will include listening comprehension and YouTube Video as teaching media in English lesson. 4. For the other researchers The result of the study can be used as a starting point for further research conducted in the future in order to create a better teaching learning process. commit to user 10 CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW This chapter describes the related literature review on listening, the teaching listening, review on narrative text, YouTube video, teaching listening using YouTube video , the researcher’s rationale and the last is the researcher’s hypothesis.

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