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Nunan, 2004. Based on the data collected, the students in the eighth grade of SMP N 3 Sleman are usually given a low variety of tasks. TBLT combined with
animated movies offers more variation of tasks. The students are encouraged to develop their listening skill meaningfully through the tasks.
In conclusion, the researcher conducts this study to provide suitable listening materials for the eighth grade students of SMP N 3 Sleman containing
interesting and applicable activities to encourage them to learn English. By particularly recognizing the language in the real context, it will be easier for the
students to develop their listening ability in general, especially for the national examination. Students in this level have enough competence to discover meaning
of a story through their literacy skills. Consequently, they have enough language competence to understand animated movies. The researcher expects that by
providing listening materials that can train the students’ understanding of meaningful context, the students’ listening skill will be improved.
B. Problem Identification
This study appoints the problems found in SMP N 3 Sleman. The researcher finds that the availability of lesson materials for listening is still limited.
The students also have limited experience in listening to authentic materials, which is the common type of language used in the real world. The researcher
conducts this study to improve the students’ listening ability using animated movies. The students are also interested in having listening class but they rarely
have the ability to understand what the benefit of the listening for because they are
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not facilitated to associate it with their life. Considering those problems, the researcher conducts this study to develop design that complements the students’
needs.
C. Problem Limitation
The study is limited on how the listening materials for the eighth grade students of SMP N 3 Sleman using animated movies are designed. The researcher
designs the listening materials using animated movies as the main materials following the curriculum formulated by the government. Besides, the listening
materials will also be designed by considering the situations and needs of the students. In particular, the method that will be used in the materials is task-based
language teaching.
D. Problem Formulation
Based on the situation identified in the previous section, the researcher formulates two basic problems of this study as follows.
1. How are the instructional listening materials for the eighth grade students of SMP N 3 Sleman using animated movies designed?
2. What do the listening materials look like?
E. Research Objectives
Regarding the problems formulated in the previous sections, this study raises two main objectives as follows.
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1. To design instructional listening materials for the eighth grade students of SMP N 3 Sleman using animated movies.
2. To present instructional listening materials for the eighth grade students of SMP N 3 Sleman using animated movies.
F. Research Benefits
