Arif RAHMANI Pengarang Rostanti Toba, M.Pd. Dosen Pembimbing 1 Widya Noviana Noor, M.Pd. Dosen Pembimbing 2 Rostanti Toba, M.Pd. Penguji 1 Widya Noviana Noor, M.Pd. Penguji 2 Dr. Shafa, S.Pd.I, M.Pd. Ketua Penguji

Arif Rahmani, 2023. "The Effectiveness of Using Spotify to Improve Students’ Listening ability at the Eleventh Grade Students’ of SMKN 4 Samarinda in Academic Year 2023/2024". Undergraduate Thesis, Department of English Education, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, State Islamic University Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda. This research was supervised by Mrs. Rostanti Toba, M.Pd as the primary advisor and Mrs. Widya Noviana Noor, M.Pd as the secondary advisor. Effective teaching and learning rely not only on the proficiency of educators and learners but also on the suitability of instructional media.. This research aims to determine the effectiveness of improving the listening ability of students’ at SMKN 4 Samarinda by using the Spotify application as a teaching media. The research design employed is a quantitative Pre-Experimental One Group Pre-Test Post-Test design. The researcher analyzed the data using SPSS 25. The instrument used in this research is a test, consisting of 21 questions tested for validity. The population and sample of this research are the eleventh-grade students’ of the Vocational High School 4 Samarinda, totalling 21 students’. The results of this research demonstrate that the use of the Spotify application can enhance students’ listening abilities. This is evidenced by the average scores of students’ in the pre-test and post-test. The research results show that the Spotify application significantly improves students’ listening ability after the intervention. The average score increased from 57.3 in the pre-test to 76.1 in the post-test. The t-test results indicate that the values of the pre-test and post-test are smaller than α (0.00 < 0.05). Based on these results, it can be concluded that the null hypothesis (Ha) is accepted, meaning that the Spotify application can enhance students’ listening ability in English language learning at SMKN 4 Samarinda.