A Study of The Use of American Series in High School Students’ English Listening Skills

Abstract

The purposes of the study were 1) to study high school students’ English series interests for learning English listening skills 2) to develop English listening with American series via online learning methods 3) to study high school students’ satisfaction in learning English listening skills before and after using American series. The participants were 10 high school students who take online English tutorial course. The research design was Mixed methods research using Qualitative method to extend Quantitative results was used for research design. The instruments were the students’ American series interests for learning English listening skills interview form, the Listening Skills Development Pre-Test and Post-Test, the Students’ satisfaction in the Use of American Series in High School Students’ English Listening Skills Development Via Extra Tutorial Course Online Learning questionnaire. The calculation method was the percentage by Microsoft Office Excel program.  The result in this study showed the percentage of the levels of the students’ American series interests for learning English listening skills separated by gender of the students; 1) Fantasy genre was 60% by male students means Fairly interested level and 74.29% by female students means Interested level. 2) Teenage Comedy genre was 86.67% by male students means Highly interested level and 94.29% by female students means Highly interested level. 3) Sci-Fi genre was 73.33% by male students means Interested level and 60% by female students means Fairly interested level. 4) Action genre was 86.67% by male students means Highly interested level and 54.29% by female students means Fairly interested level. Next, the gender differences using the American series in listening skills development Pre-Test results were 31% by male students means Low level, 35% by female students means Low level, and 34% in total means Low level. Next, the gender differences using the American series in listening skills development Post-Test results were 69% by male students means good level, 81% by female students means Very good level, and 77% in total means good level. Lastly, the level of the students’ satisfaction towards using American series in listening skills development were compared between females and males results were 88% by male students means Very satisfied level, 86.29% by female students means Very satisfied level, and 86.80% in total means Very satisfied level which means the students were very satisfied in using American series in high school students’ English listening skills development via extra tutorial course online learning.