Application of Whichever Chain Game Method on Listening Ability German Language Students SMA Negeri 1 Makassar

Abstract

The listening ability in German is is a difficult language skill, especialy for beginner, because there are several alphabets in German which are little bit difficult to pronounce by the student, especially when they are listening to a dialogue or a conversation from CD and Video. To solve that student problem, a fun learning process should be done. To optimizing the student learning ability, a chain whisper game is possible to do. This game is played by divide the student into some groups, by whispering a message in a chain. The purpose of this research is to discover how game can increase student’s listening ability in German. The subjects of this research are 30 Senior high school 1st grade students, in SMA Negeri 1 Makassar. The method of collecting data is a listening ability test while the data analysis method is statistic descriptive. The result of this research shows the student’s listening ability using chain whisper game method is 74.37% or including in the good chategory.