Improving Students' Listening Comprehension of Narratives by Using Movies As Media At Grade XI IPA 5 of SMAN 2 Bangkinang

The students of grade XI IPA 5 Of SMAN 2 Bangkinang had problems in listening comprehension of narratives. The purposes of this research are to find out whether the movies can improve the students’ listening comprehension of narratives, and the factors that influence the improvement of the students’ listening comprehension of narratives by using movies. The research was conducted from October 10th, up to December 12th, 2013. This research is a classroom action research which was conducted in two cycles with planning, action, observation, and reflection. The data were gathered from observation sheets, field note, interview and listening comprehension tasks and tests and hey were analyzed through quantitative and qualitative analysis. The research findings were movies could improve the students’ listening comprehension of narratives. This conclusion based on the increasing of the mean score of the students in listening narrative text as well as the increasing of mean score of students in listening indicators of narrative text.The mean score reached the standard minimum score of English which was 70. It was proven from the improvement of the mean score of listening comprehension from 40.63 before the research become 58.98 in cycle 1, and 73.44 in cycle 2. The factors that influenced the improvement of students' listening comprehension of narrative text consisted of material, media, classroom activity, and classroom management, teacher’s approach and teaching strategy. In conclusion, the use of movies can improve of students' listening comprehension of narrative texts.