IMPROVING LISTENING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA XAVERIUS 2 PALEMBANG BY USING TOP DOWN AND BOTTOM UP STRATEGIES
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- This study was conducted to find out significant difference in listening achievement for eleventh grade students who were taught by using two different strategies which are top down and bottom up strategies and to see which strategy that better and easier to teach listening so students can improve their listening achievement. The population of this study was eleventh grade students of SMA Xaverius 2 Palembang who were consisted 221 students and the sample were conducted using random sampling technique and it was consisted as 62 students who were taken from two different classes. To engage students’ ability in listening comprehension by using an instrument which was listening test that was given twice in pre-test and post-test. The aim for giving pre-test for students was to find out the ability before the treatment and the post-test was given to find out the improvement. By using SPSS program that was used to calculated the data. The data that was calculated by using paired sample t-test to find out the result of pre-test and post-test from both groups. And independent sample t test was used to find out the different of post-test from these two groups. The result of paired sample t-test of both experimental groups showed that the t-obtained was higher than t-table and the p-value<0.05 (.000 <0.05). The result of the calculation of paired sample t test and independent sample t test showed that top down strategy is easier to be taught to improve listening comprehension for students. The result of independent sample t-test showed that the t-obtained was higher than the t-table (4.744 > 1.999) and the p-value<0.05 (.000<0.05). So it means the implementation of both strategies were successful enough and the better and easier strategy to teach English in this research was top down strategy