Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Iv abstract name : husnul khatimah student no. : 0906102050005 study program : english education title : using total physical response to improve students’ listening skills for first grade students of junior high school (an experimental study at smp negeri 13 banda aceh) keyword: tpr, listening, students. the aim of this study is to know how total physical response method improves students’ scores in listening.one class pre-test and post-test experimental design was applied in teaching process at smp negeri 13 banda aceh. the population of the study was the first grade students of smp negeri 13 banda aceh which were taken randomly and the sample of this study was the students of class vii-1 that consisted of 28 students. the data in this study were collected in march 18th until march 28th, 2014. the instruments for this study was test. the test was imperative sentence that consists of 25 items. the data of the test were analyzed by using t-formula to find out the t-score. the score of the post-test (2208) was higher than pre-test (1232). the mean score of the post-test and pre-test is (34.85). it was also shown that the difference value of t-score (19.9) was higher than t-table (2.052). therefore, the alternative hypothesis (ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (ho) was rejected. in conclusion, the writer concludes that using total physical response method can improve students’ ability in listening.