ENHANCING LISTENING ABILITY THROUGH TPT BY USING ADOBE AUDITION 1.5

Abstract

ABSTRACT The conventional method applied in the teaching listening created mistakes for the students to answer the listening questions. To overcome the problem the researcher applied TPT with Adobe Audition as a teaching media. The research questions was how could adobe audition 1.5 be able to improve the student’s listening ability? The research design used was Classroom Action Research (CAR), applying the spiral model with 4 steps: First step was planning, second step was acting, third step was observing, and fourth step was reflecting. The research result were: 1) the students could understand the English material easily and clearly, 2)the activities in class became joyful, happy and more interesting, 3)the students’ listening skill and their achievement in English materials became more improved, 4) the students became more interested in learning listening comprehension and vocabulary, 5)the students learning motivation became more increased. Meanwhile, the mean of the students’ scores of cycle 2 was better than cycle I, those were 55% in cycle 1 and 70% in cycle2. Key Words: teaching listening, TPT, adobe audition 1.5