International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) ISSN: 2319-7064 ResearchGate Impact Factor (2018): 0.28 | SJIF (2018): 7.426 Volume 8 Issue 5, May 2019 www.ijsr.net Licensed Under Creative Commons Attribution CC BY The Comparison of Podcast media and Real Object Media in Listening Comprehension Instruction Rezqa Gusrizal 1 , Hermawati Syarif 2 , Jufri Jufri 3 English Education of Graduate Program at Universitas Negeri Padang Abstract: Podcast and real object are media that may influence students’ listening comprehension. This research was aimed to find out the comparison podcast media and real object media toward students’ listening comprehension. This was a kind of quasi experimental research. It was conducted in SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Pekanbaru. The students of grade X were the population of this research. The sample was chosen by using cluster random sampling strategy in which was X MIA 1 as experimental class and X MIA 4 as the control class. The data was analyzed by using t-test for hypothesis testing. The result showed that the students’ who were taught by using podcast had better listening comprehension achievement than those who were taught by using real object. Since podcast enhances the students’ interest and motivation in learning listening comprehension, so that they were excited to know and comprehend of spoken text. It can be concluded that podcast media had better result on students’ listening comprehension achievement tha n real object media. Keywords: Podcast; Real Object; Media, Listening Comprehension 1. Introduction Listening is one of important skills for success in communication. It can be categorized as the basic skill. It needs to support the other skills, such as speaking, reading and writing. By listening, the students as listeners can comprehend the meaning from the speakers and produce a spoken language for communication. According to [7] listening is process of interpreting message from speakers. In addition, listening comprehension is the process to identify what speakers talk in which the process in involves of discriminate between sounds and pronunciation, interpret stress and intonation, understand vocabulary and grammatical structure [8]. Thus, listeners do not only get information in listening, but the goal of listening is to comprehend spoken language that used as communication. Considering the importance of listening skill as communication in language learning, the teachers need to find out the appropriate media in helping teaching and learning listening comprehension. Media is one of important things to support teaching listening as skills. It is used to accompany attractive materials in developing students creative and imaginative for those images, words and sounds in teaching and learning [14]. There are several kinds of media in teaching listening comprehension. Based on [11] classify media for teaching listening in six categories. They are text, audio, audio-visual, multimedia and real object. In supporting teaching and learning, the teacher uses real object media in teaching listening. Real object uses teacher’s voice as media for spoken language source. Then, the students listen and comprehend through teacher’s voice. According to [16] real object can help students to stimulate and attract student’s attention. It is line with [4] saying that real object is able to bring any real object into classroom. Briefly, real object media can support teacher and students in teaching listening activities On the other hand, these days a good media should be new and web-based technology. One of media used today is Podcast. It is an attractive media that helps students in exposing authentic listening materials on the current technological era. Based on [1] podcast is multimedia streaming that integrates technology in broadcasting audio and video files on internet. It is supported by [13], podcast makes possibilities for students to practice more in listening. This is because the teachers and students can access podcast through website or application devices freely for teaching and learning activities in which they are able to listen inside and outside of the classroom anytime. Shortly, it engages student’s background knowledge and they are easier to comprehend of spoken text. 2. Review of Related Literature 2.1. Podcast Media in Teaching Listening Comprehension Podcast is multimedia that used to attract students’ attention in learning listening comprehension. It is believed to be able in giving students’ additional exposure in spoken language. Podcast is multimedia streaming in which consist audio and video files that upload periodically which [5]. Moreover, there are two types of podcast. According to [10], Podcast is categorized into two types, namely; radio and independent podcasts. First, radio podcast are existing radio programs as like as BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and RTHK (Radio Television Hongkong). Second is independent podcast that produced by education practitioners or education institutes to learning English, for examples are podcastinenglish.com, learningenglish.voanews.com/podcasts, English Podcast for Learners and etc. All of them can be used with teachers and students in teaching and learning listening comprehension easily. In addition, there are some steps in using podcast, they are introducing a topic and podcast, listening audio in podcast, watching video in podcast, distributing worksheet, discussing and practicing based on they have listened in podcast and doing a homework through podcast as media [4]. Thus, podcast can facilitate teaching and learning of listening comprehension. Paper ID: ART20197607 10.21275/ART20197607 608