Abstract
This study aimed at improving the students’ listening skill through Dictoglos. The design of the study was a classroom based action research which was carried out in two cycles, each comprising two teaching learning sessions and one post-test. The subjects were the ninth year students of SMP Negeri 1 Rendang at class IX D. The data were collected through listening test and analyzed descriptively. The results revealed that the students’ listening skill could be improved through the use of Dictoglos as proven by attainment of the class success indicator(class learning mastery level) 90% by the end of cycle 2, which was improving from 67% in cycle 1 and 47% in the pretest.
Highlights
Languages are means of communication.As individual, people use languagesto expressideas, thoughts, andknowledgeto others
Learning English is very important because it increases the chances of getting a good job in this era
The subjects of this study, which was conducted in July to September 2018, Yavana Bhāshā: Journal of English Language Education March 2019, Volume 2, Issue 1 were the first semester students of class IX D SMP Negeri 1 Rendangin the academic year of 2018/2019
Summary
Languages are means of communication.As individual, people use languagesto expressideas, thoughts, andknowledgeto others. They use them for socialising (Suwarno, 2002:4). Languages are very important to be taught at school. Learning English is very important because it increases the chances of getting a good job in this era. Many countries include English in their school syllabus and at a young age, children start to learn english
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