ABSTRACT Rijal, Achmad Saifur. 2022. The Effect of English Podcast in Teaching Listening for Students with Different Learning Styles. Department of English Language Education, Faculty of Graduate Degree, State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Kediri. Advisors: Dr. Sri Wahyuni, M. Pd., and Dr. Fathor Rasyid, M. Pd. Keywords: English Podcast, Teaching Listening, Learning Styles. Listening is one of the most difficult language skills for students to master for EFL learners. Students need focus to comprehend what they listen. Some students are not able to comprehend in their listening test during class time since they are lacking of vocabulary, focus, and experience in listening. Therefore, teachers should be able to use the appropriate technique and media in order to facilitate students in increasing their listening skill. Using an alternative media in the form of English podcast video can help to develop their listening skill. It provides a unique way in listening process then keeping their attention and comprehending what is being discussed. However, the involvement of students’ learning styles seems affect the effectiveness of the media. This research aimed to examine the effectiveness of English podcast in teaching listening to students with different learning style. The research was quasi-experimental research. The sample of the research was two classes of eleventh grade students of MA Unggulan Abdul Wahab Hasbulloh (MAUWH) Jombang; XI MIPA 3 as the experimental group, and XI MIPA 2 as the control group. The experimental group consists of 24 students and the control group consist of 25 students. A set of pretest and posttest of listening test were used as the instrument of the research. To assess students’ learning style, The items of learning style questionnaires were adapted from Quantum Teaching written by DePorter, B., Reardon, M., & Singer-Nourie, S. The treatments were given to experimental group in three meetings. The hypothesis was tested using ANCOVA analysis to know the effectiveness of the method used to know the difference among learning styles. The findings revealed that the use of English podcast is effective in teaching listening for eleventh grade students of MAUWH (sig. 001 < .05; f- obtained > f-table, 12.889 > 4.038). The experimental group achieve better result on their listening test (68.25 > 62.92). Then, the use of English podcast toward students who have different learning style in teaching listening is effective only to auditory students (.018 < .05), not to kinesthetic (.120 > .05) and auditory (.105 > .05) students. The use of English podcast is the most effective for auditory learners (Mean= 70.15), then followed by visual learners (Mean= 67.67), and the last is for kinaesthetic learners (Mean= 64).

Rijal , Achmad Saifur .   (2023). The Effect Of English Podcast In Teaching Listening For Students With Different Learning Styles. IAIN Kediri