Andhika Pratama PUTRA Pengarang Dra. Sitti Hadijah, M.Pd. Dosen Pembimbing 2 Rostanti Toba, M.Pd. Dosen Pembimbing 1 Dra. Sitti Hadijah, M.Pd. Penguji 2 Rostanti Toba, M.Pd. Penguji 1 Widya Noviana Noor, M.Pd. Ketua Penguji

Putra, Andhika Pratama. 2022. The Effectiveness of Using Missing Lyrics in Improving Students’ Listening Skill of The Eleventh Grade Students of SMAN 4 Samarinda in The Academic Year 2022/2023. Thesis, English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris State Islamic University of Samarinda. This research is under the guidance of Mrs. Rostanti Toba, M. Pd as the first advisor, and Mrs. Dra. Sitti Hadijah, M. Pd as the second advisor. Listening is one of the essential skills because it is important for daily activities and the classroom learning process, particularly in English classes. Despite this, many students may still struggle with listening comprehension. Because listening is one of the difficult skills to learn because there are many factors that must be achieved and requires more concentration to master it. Based on the result of the problems above, the researcher generates the concept of constructing a teaching listening strategy using missing lyrics as learning media to help students improve their listening comprehension skills emerged. This research was conducted to find out whether missing lyrics is significantly effective or not significantly effective to improve students' listening skill at SMAN 4 Samarinda in academic year 2022/2023. The research approach employed in this research was quantitative, using a quasi-experimental design to compare two classes. Students at the eleventh grade in SMAN 4 Samarinda served as the research subjects. Class XI IPS 2 and class XI IPS 3 were the subjects of this research. With 28 students in the experimental class and 32 in the control class, class XI IPS 2 served as the control group and class XI IPS 3 as the experimental group. Multiple-choice examinations served as the research instrument. The researcher utilized the SPSS version 26 program and the independent sample T-test formula to evaluate the data. The results of research showed that missing lyrics was “quite effective” to improved listening comprehension achievement of the eleventh-grade students of SMAN 4 Samarinda. The results of the statistical test reveal that the significance value (Sig. 2-tailed) was 0.000, where the achieved value was less than 0.05. It can be concluded that the missing lyrics improved the listening achievement of eleventh-grade SMAN 4 Samarinda students and can be used as an alternative strategy to improve students' listening abilities.