JETAFL (Journal of English Teaching as a Foreign Language) ISSN: 2459-9506 JETAFL Publishing, Volume 4, Issue 2: December 2018 Page 1 Effect of Audio Visual Teaching Media on Students Listening Comprehension Rudiarman Purba Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Nommensen HKBP University, Medan, Indonesia Abstract: This research is aimed to find out the effect of Audio Visual Teaching Media on the students Listening Comprehesion. In doing this research, the researcher uses some theories namaely: Sapir (1949), Erichah (2011), Hemei (1997), King (2002), Brown G (1990),Brown D (2000), Martinez (2010), Saricoban (1999), Imhof (2011), Cohen, Manion, and Morrison (2007), Rasul, Bukhsh, Batool (2011), and Bretz (1971). In this study, the first year students of English Study Program FKIP Universitas HKBP NommensenPematangsiantar are taken as subjects. This research use experimental research design. To get the data, the researcher uses Video of Marthin Luther King,Jr‟s Speech which is titled “I have a dream”. The students in the experimental group listened and saw the video. But those in the control group simply listened to the speech. After analyzing the data it was found out that the t-count is higher than t–table (3.17>1.67). Therefore, the null hypothesis (H 0 ) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It‟s found that using audio-visual teaching media is more effective than the conventional teaching media on the students listening Comprehension. Keywords: Audio visual, listening comprehension, media I. INTRODUCTION This research is aimed to find out if the application of Audio-Visual Teaching Media more significantly affect than conventional teaching listening comprehension at second semester students English Department of Nommensen HKBP University Pematangsiantar. There are some resason why ths research to be done. First, the need of documentation for English department of UHN, it s also useful for the practical and scientific needs in future. The second is for the researcher himself as the strategy to teach listening comprehension in the classroom. The pleriminary research of this study show that the students are lact of listening comprehension achievement. To get the rela data of this research, the researcher formulate the research problem by the following question: Is the application of Audio-Visual Teaching Media more significantly effect than conventional teaching listening comprehension at second semester students English Department of Nommensen HKBP University Pematangsiantar? II. THEORETICAL REVIEW 2.1 Definition of Listening Listening is the act of concentrating on hearing something or the act of paying attention. Listening involves the physiological activity of hearing, it also involves predicting,