THE USE OF STORYNORY.COM IN ASSISTING STUDENTS’ LISTENING ABILITY (A Case Study of An Islamic Junior High School in Tasikmalaya)

Abstract

ABSTRACT In this global era, teachers must make breakthroughs to create more competitive students and prepare Indonesia's golden generation. With the digital revolution, technology-based learning is becoming increasingly rapid. The use of existing applications is an important part of the online learning system. This online learning can encourage students to create an understandable learning system. Teachers can design the learning process using storynory.com. The researcher uses Storynory.com as a medium that students need to help them in interpreting the text because the audio that Storynory.com offers is an easy and entertaining story that may also have educational purposes. This study aims to find out the teacher's implementation and to find out how students perceive the use of Storynory.com. Methods: Using qualitative methods, with research data collection using observation, Questionnaire, and interview methods. The findings show that the teacher implements Storynory.com by playing the story and asking students to listen to the story over and over and discuss it with their classmates to make the learning atmosphere more enjoyable. Almost all students like and enjoy learning using the Storynory.com media, especially with the use of Storynory.com in learning to make learning activities fun because of the ease of use and availability of existing stories and also practice listening skills. The conclusion of the Storynory.com website in current learning shows a good response from teachers and students, they enjoy and easily understand the audio available and Storynory.com also helps students to improve their listening skills. They can repeat the audio so as to improve students' listening skills