DEVELOPING SOUND MIXING LISTENING MEDIA FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

This study deals with the developing of sound mixing listening media for junior high school students. The objective of this study is to find out how to develop sound mixing listening media for better listening of junior high school students. The research was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D) method. The subject of this research was 2016/2017 students of the ninth grade of Class A in SMP YPAK PTPN III Sei Karang. The number of the students was 46 students. The data of this study was collected by using need analysis questionnaire, expert judgment, and selective listening test. Need analysis questionnaire was calculated by using percentage to get the information of students’ need before developing sound mixing listening media. Expert judgment data were calculated by using Likert scale, mean and criteria interval of expert judgment to know the validity of sound mixing media which has been developed. Selective listening test was in the form of listening cloze test which consisted of ten missing words. After the data analyzed, it was found that the experts’ judgment result was 4.25 which had a very good criteria interval. For the result of listening cloze test, the mean of the students’ score was 4 which showed an improvement. The result of the research find that sound mixing listening media is a very good listening media to be used in teaching listening.