Juliati Amalia LESTARI Pengarang Dr. Umar Fauzan, M.Pd. Dosen Pembimbing 1 Widya Noviana Noor, M.Pd. Dosen Pembimbing 2 Rostanti Toba, M.Pd. Ketua Penguji Dini Irawati, M.Pd. Penguji 2

Lestari, Juliati Amalia. 2020. The Use Of Youtube Vlog To Improve Students’ Listening Skill Of Eighth Grade At MTs DDI Tani Aman Loa Janan In Academic Year 2019/2020. Thesis. Teacher Training And Tarbiyah Faculty. English Education Department. State Islamic Institute Of Samarinda. Advisors: Dr.Umar Fauzan, M.Pd As The First Advisor And Widya Noviana Noor, M.Pd As The Second Advisor. The Background Of Research Is Students Have Less Motivation In Learning English And Some Students Feel Difficult In Understand Vocabularies That Were Pronounced. As A Result, They Did Not Know The Word And Its Meaning. It Happens Because They Could Not Hear The Articulation Of The Word Clearly. Based On The Preliminary Test, There Were 26 Students Or 92% Students Under The KKM And Mean Score Of Preliminary Study Was 28.51. The Objective Of This Research Is To Find Out Is Youtube Vlog Can Improve Students’ Listening Skill Of Eighth Grade At Mts DDI Tani Aman Loa Janan In Academic Year 2019/2020. The Design Of This Research Was Classroom Action Research (CAR) Which Researcher Following Kemmis And Mctaggart Action Research Procedures. The Subject Of This Research Was Students Of VIIIB At Mts DDI Tani Aman Were About 29 Students. The Instrument Of This Research Is Observation Checklist, Test, And Field Note. The Result Of This Research Indicated That There Was Improvement Of The Students’ Listening Skill. Most Of The Students Gradually Gained Good Scores At The Second Cycle. The Score Of Minimum Mastery Criterion (KKM) Of English Lesson Was 75.00. In The Preliminary Study There Were 26 Students Or 92% Students Under The KKM And Mean Score Of Preliminary Study Was 28.51. Next, The Result Of The First Cycle Showed That There Were 20 Students Or 68% Students Under The KKM Considering Their Mean Score Of The Test Gained 145.47%. Next, The Result Of The Second Cycle Shows That There Were 1 Student Or 3.57% Students Who Passed The KKM Which Their Mean Scores Derived 88.21 And Gained 209.40% Of Improvement. So, The Final Result Is Found That More Than 75% Students With Individual Score In Listening Skill Passed The KKM.