STUDENTS’ CHALLENGES IN LISTENING IN VIRTUAL CLASSROO; CASE STUDY IN ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM IN COVID-19

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The objective of this study was to know the empirical evidence about the use of short story on students’ vocabulary achievment in the seventh grade of SMPN 5 Belawang. This study was held in May 2020 at SMPN 5 Belawang. The method used in this study was quantitative method and research design was pre experimental. The sampling technique used in this study was Sampling technique. The researcher took one class as the subject of this study that was VIIA class. The researcher had compared the pretest score before treatment was given and after the treatment was given. The result of gained score of pre-test and post-test in the experiment was 39.2 and.704 For the testing hypotheses was analyzed using t-test formula. The researcher used SPSS v.16 for windows program which is Paired Sample Test. The calculation of vocabulary test result between the pre test and the post test can be seen from result of t-test of this research, and the result is 12.34. The result of t-table is 1.319, it can be seen df 39.5. Ho is rejected, and the Ha is accepted because 12.34> 1.319 or the t-test > t-table. It can be concluded that the use of short story is effective on students’ vocabulary achievment in the seventh grade of SMPN 5 Belawang.