<![CDATA[his research was conducted to improve students‟ listening competence byusing Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) method. The aims of conducting thisresearch were as follows: (1) improving students‟ listening competence through CTL;(2) finding the students‟ interest improvement on their listening by using CTL; (3)finding the improvement of the students‟ listening competence by using CTL. TheClassroom Action Research was used by the researcher in conducting this research.Furthermore, the pre-test, treatments, and post-test were given to find the students‟listening improvement in learning using CTL.The result of the research showed thatCTL could improve the students‟ listening competence. It could be seen from theaverage scores in the pre-test and post-test. The average score of students in the pretestwas about fifty six point two. Meanwhile, the average score in the first post-test andsecond post-test were seventy two point five and eighty point six. The result of thestudents‟ average score showed the improvement in their listening achievement by byusing CTL. The students‟ interest improved through the students‟ active contributionduring the learning processes which was measured by using scoring rubric of“metacognitive rubric motivation”. Therefore, it can be concluded that CTL is effectiveto teach listening to the students. In short, the method can be used by the teacher as analternative to teach listening.Keywords: Classroom Action Research, CTL, Listening, Method, Motivation]]>
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