Developing Multimedia Based Materials to Teach Listening Comprehension

Abstract: The aim of the study were: to describe multimedia based materials
availaible, to find out what multimedia based materials needed, to develop
multimedia based materials, and to describe the effectiveness of the multimedia
based materials developed. The study used Research and Development (R&D)
design which was used to develop products and measure the effectiveness of
development product proposed by Borg and Gall (2007).The findings of study
were: firstly, the researcher did not find the multimedia materials as teaching and
learning sources at school, because the teacher used text book and teacher talk in
listening activity. Secondly, the result of prelimenary research showed that in
English teaching and learning process need a multimedia based materials as
learning media to support listening activity in the language laboratory. Thirdly,
multimedia has been developed based on the students’ need and interest, beside
that developing multimedia also based on the current curriculum (2013
curriculum). The last, the result of pre-test and post-test that multimedia was
effective for learning listening and it can be applied teaching and learning process
at seven grade students of state junior high school thirteen Semarang. The final
product of this study was a package of interactive CD-ROM for learning listening.
Key words: Listening Comprehension, Multimedia Based Materials