EXPOSURE JOURNAL
Vol 1, No 1 (2012): Exposure

THE USE OF TOMATIS METHOD TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILL

Ummi Khaerati Syam (Muhammadiyah University of Makassar)



Article Info

Publish Date
08 May 2012

Abstract

This research aimed to know the effectiveness of using Tomatis Method to improve the students’ listening skill and to know the student activeness toward teaching-learning process through Tomatis Method of the tenth-grade students of SMK Negeri 2 Makassar. The method of this research consisted of two cycles. One cycle consisted of four meetings. It means that there were eight meetings for two cycles. As a subject in this research was class X in the 2012-2013 academic year with students’ number as about 36 students, 23 of the students are men and 13 students are women. The instruments of this research were observation sheet and listening test or evaluation. The findings of the research were students’ improvement in listening was 64.55 in cycle I and then it became 73.93 in cycle II. The students’ participation in learning the listening process in the first meeting of the cycle I was 59.02% then it became 81.25% in the fourth meeting of cycle II.Keywords: Tomatis Method, Listening, Improve.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

exposure

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Exposure Journal publishes academic articles that recognize successful engaged learning depends on effective partnerships between students, faculty, community agencies, administrators, disciplines, and more. The journal invites submission of 1) Research that emanates from or informs campus-community ...