Abstract :
There are four skills in English, namely speaking, listening, reading and writing that must be learned in learning English high school level. One of them is listening skill. The researcher find some problem in teaching listening which are in delivery the material such as audio listening was so fast and the students difficult to get the point from the audio. The alternative is using LINE Application such as media to teaching listening and delivery the material such as audio listening and the students can control the speed of audio listening and can replay the audio listening more than one. This study was to examine the significant effect of Teaching Students Listening using LINE Application for X? ?Grade at SMA Muhammadiyah 8 Cerme. And the research using experiment one group pre-test and post-test.
The researcher choose tenth grade at SMA Muhammadiyah 8 Cerme which totally consisted of 20 students. The researcher used cluster sampling because the school has been determined the classification of the students it was included 28 students of X MIPA 1 as the experiment. The data was collected by using tests; pre-test and post-test. After getting the data, the researcher analyzed the data by using SPSS 16.0 and used Paired Sample T-test. The research finding showed that there was a significant difference between pre-test and post-test. Therefore, the researcher suggest to the English teacher for implementing LINE application to teach students listening as an alternative media in English teaching learning process and hope to use LINE application in teaching students listening and levels to make different with the previous study. Proven by the result sig. (2 tailed) is .000. The sig. (2 tailed) is lower than 0,05 (0,00<0,05) so, null hypothesis (H0) can be rejected. The researcher concluded that using LINE application gave positive effect on student?s listening skill. The students can practice their listening skill by using LINE application. Because the students can control the speed of audio listening and students can replay the audio listening. And teaching listening using LINE application as new learning to teach listening. So, the student easy to listen the audio listening and easy to get the point from the audio listening using LINE application.