Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract name : mauliza student no. : 0906102050071 study program : english education title : the application of audio lingual method in improving student’s listening at mtsn tungkob aceh besar this study was conducted to finding out whether audio lingual method improves the student’s listening ability. in order to achieve the objective of this study, the writer designed a quantitative research. the population was the second grade students of mtsn tungkob aceh besar. the sample of this study was students class viii6. this class consists of 38 students. the data in this study were collected from november 19th to december 5th, 2013. the instruments used were tests. the test was about asking and giving opinion that consist of 10 multiple choices. the data of test were analyzed by using t-formula to find out the t-score. the score of pre-test and post-test was the evidence of their improvement after conducting the research. in fact, the pre-test was 1.840, post-test was 2.650, t-score was 5.45 and t-table was 2.03, the t-score was higher than the t-table. it means that the alternative hypothesis is accepted. in conclusion, the application of audio lingual method improves students’ listening.