Abstract:
The objectives of this research was to find out the significant effect of shadowing
technique on students’ listening ability in words recognition. An experimental
research and descriptive quantitative method were used. The location of the
research was at SMP Muhammadiyah 02 Pahlawan, Medan, A.Y 2019/2020. The
population of this research was the eighth grade students, and total sampling
technique was used by choosing 2 classes as experimental and control class. Each
class consisted of 30 students. The instrument of the data collection was tests
consisting of 25 items given as pre-test and post-test given to both experimental
and control groups. Based on the data analysis, the result showed that applying
shadowing technique on the students listening ability was significantly effected
which was proven by the calculated of t-test. The t-test result showed that tobserved
was higher than ttable (5.2915 > 2.024), = 0.05, at df = 28. On the other words,
the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) was
rejected; the effect of shadowing technique on the students’ listening ability in
words recognition was 63.80% and 36.20% from the other factors.
