Abstract
EFL Learners’ distress in listening to English records in the classroom is one of the matters commonly discovered in Indonesian middle scholars. Listening activities bring students to the mastery of other skills; speaking, writing, and reading. Total Physical Response was created to enhance the students’ ability in listening to a spoken foreign language discourse by giving a physical response when they hear aparticular command. This study works toward finding the effect of Total Physical Response utilization on students’ listening comprehension at MTs Negeri 4 Banyuwangi.The samples of this study were two groups of students; 30 students of VII A and 30 students of VII B. Class VII B was assigned as the control group, while Class VII A as the experimental group where both pre-test and post-test were conducted to each group. The experimental group was taught by using TPR, while in the control group learning is carried out in the way teachers normally teach, that is using Three-phase technique.The hypothesis was tested using independent sample t-test and analyzed by using SPSS. Total Physical Response could administer some refinement on students’ listening, which is evidently manifested in the result of the post-test. Students in experiment group achieved better score than those in control group. This study suggests the use of Total Physical Response to the early middle scholars as an alternative to other teaching methods.
Highlights
Total Physical Response is a motionbased language method. This facilitates learning English vocabulary and is suitable for middle scholars; with this method children are involved in the form of movements that are supported by various English learning media
Listening comprehension that is applied in class VIIMTs Negeri 4 Banyuwangi is still less effective because the it is oriented towards teachercentered method, based on observations it can be said that students show enthusiasm at the beginning of learning, but this does not last long, the learning problems experienced by students are students less accustomed to listen to English records.Students find it difficult to understand what the content of the records is and what is taught by the teacher, and this has an effect on student learning outcomes
The implementation process began with 1) conducting research on the initial learning process given by the teacher, 2) giving pretests to class VII A and B on Listening, and 3) conducting research on student learning using the Total Physical Response (TPR) method
Summary
Total Physical Response is a motionbased language method. This facilitates learning English vocabulary and is suitable for middle scholars; with this method children are involved in the form of movements that are supported by various English learning media. Volume 04, No 2, November 2019 supporting books, and even more often urban schools that provide special rooms as English laboratory rooms This has a profound effect on students’ learning outcomes. Based on observation done by the researcher, problems were identified, such as 1) the students of Class VII MTsN 4 Banyuwangi were lacking of interest in learning listening. These students seemed to lose interest in learning when it is related to listening. 5) Lack of material in the form of text books and supporting facilities such as recordings, CDs, learning tapes or recordings, especially in teaching listening skills to students of class VII MTsN 4 Banyuwangi The teacher has not induced effective learning strategies during his teaching. 5) Lack of material in the form of text books and supporting facilities such as recordings, CDs, learning tapes or recordings, especially in teaching listening skills to students of class VII MTsN 4 Banyuwangi
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