Improving Student’s listening Ability with Top Down and Bottom Up Strategies At Eight Grade of SMP NEGERI 37 Medan

Abstract

The objective of this study is find out whether using Top Down and Bottom Up strategies can improve student’s ability in Listening. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of this research was the eight grade students of Junior High School 37 Medan. The research conducted in two cycles. The first cycle was three meetings and the second cycle was three meetings. The instrument for collecting data used dictation test and listening song test for quantitative data. Based on the dictation and listening song tests result, the student’s score kept improving in every test. In pre test, the mean score was 60,33. In the post test of cycle 1, the mean score was 63,33. In line with the data, it found that using top down and bottom up strategies can improve student’s listening ability.