Enhancing Students’ Reading Comprehension and Interest through Audiobooks

Abstract

In improving the quality of a person's life, the ability to read and the interest in reading are very important in understanding how the world works today. This research is experimental research that aims to identify whether there is an impact in increasing students' reading comprehension and reading interest by using audiobooks. This research uses a mixed-method research approach (a combination of quantitative and qualitative) to evaluate the impact of using audiobooks on students. This research took a sample of 30 students who were divided into two groups, namely the control class and the experimental class. Data analysis is presented in the form of diagrams, tables, and independent t tests. The results of the distributed questionnaire show that there is an increase in the use of audiobooks in the ability of students. The research results also show that if the 2-tailed significance value (Sig.) is smaller than 0.05 then H0 is not accepted, and Ha is rejected. In addition, the t-test column with a negative sign of -7.695 shows that the average student learning outcomes who were not taught using audio books was lower compared to the average learning outcomes of students who were taught using audio books. In conclusion, the use of Audiobook media proved to be effective in improving students' ability and interest in reading.