Research in English and Education Journal
Vol 1, No 2: December 2016

Developing Listening Skill Through Bottom-Up Strategy

Cut Mailisa Hasriyanti (Syiah Kuala University)



Article Info

Publish Date
19 Feb 2017

Abstract

This study is intended to find out whether the use of bottom-up strategy improves students’ listening achievement or not. The researcher conducted an experimental research in one of the Junior High Schools in Aceh Besar. One group pretest-posttest design was used in this study. The pre test was given before experimental action in order to know the students’ achievement before the treatment. In addition, to find the differences between the students’ achievement after the treatment, t-score was used. The result shows that the mean score of the pre test is 41.8 and the mean score of the post test is 78.2 and the result of t-score is 10.3. The t-Value at the level significant 0.05 is 2.120 and at the level of significant 0.01 is 2.921 with the degree of freedom 16. The result of this study revealed that the result of t-test is higher than t-Value. In other words, there is a significant difference between the pre test and the post test score. It proves that the use bottom up strategy is effective to improve students’ listening achievement.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

READ

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

READ (Research in English and Education) Journal (e-ISSN 2528-746X) is a peer-reviewed and open access academic journal published by the Department of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It highlights and publishes works in ...