Nurafia Widianingsih Primary Author mixed material bibliography serang 2023 monographic en English

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xv + 128 hlm.; 18 x 25 cm Basically, this study aims to improve students’ listening skills through Think-Pair-Share (TPS). To accomplish the aims, this study used the Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subject of this research was Eleventh Grade of MA Al-Islah Cikeusal. There were 30 students involved in this study. Besides, a senior English teacher was also took part as a research collaborator. This research was conducted in two cycles which each cycle consisted of four steps, namely planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The result of this research is TPS technique can increase students' listening skills. It can be inferred that there is an improvement from pre-cycle, cycle 1 and cycle 2. At the pre-cycle, the mean score of students was 60,33 and there was no student that reached score 75 or accomplish the minimum completeness criteria. Meanwhile, in the cycle 1, the mean score of students was 69,16 and there were 11 students accomplish the minimum completeness criteria. Then, in the cycle 2 there was an increase with the mean score was 77 and there were 23 students accomplish the minimum completeness criteria. In addition, the finding of this study also reveals that TPS enables students to (1) think and activate their background knowledge by recalling past experience and remembering previous knowledge, (2) trains students to think critically by recognizing and understanding the theme of the song along with its language features; and (3) it also trains students to be able to communicate effectively with all classmates. 428 UIN SMH Banten Perpustakaan Pusat SKRIPSI TBI 2293 SKRIPSI TBI 2293 My Library SKRIPSI TBI 2293 26499 2023-07-18 15:36:41 2023-07-18 15:36:56 machine generated