The Use of Blues Clues’ TV Show In Improving Listening Skill In English

This research, entitled “The Use of Blues Clues’ TV Show in Improving Students’ Listening Skill” aimed to investigate the effectiveness of contextual video or TV Show usage in improving the students’ listening skill and to find out the students’ opinion about learning listening through the video. The participants of this study were the students of eight year in junior high school in SMP Darul Ulum Banda Aceh. This research revealed that, in Pre-test was (53, 03%) is different from Post-test (70,67%). Thus it can be assumed that this program is effective in improving students’ listening skill. Furthermore, the result of students’ responses of questionnaire analysis indicated that the students’ responses toward the use of Blues clues TV show in learning listening were positive. Most of them stated that the TV show gave more advantages rather than disadvantages.