Improving Students’ Listening Skill by Using Simon Says Game

The purpose of this research is to find out how the use of Simon says game can improve the seventh grade of students’ listening skill. Kind of this research is classroom action research (CAR). The subject of this research is the students from seventh grade of students. Test and Observation Checklist are used to obtain the data. The design of action research are preliminary study, planning, acting, observing and reflecting. Simon says game technique improves the students’ listening skill in two cycles from the percentage of students who got score ≥70 was 50% of the twelve students in Cycle 1 to 75% of the twelve students in Cycle 2. The observation checklist result from 41.67% of students’ active participation in Cycle 1 to 79.17% of students’ active participation in Cycle 2. Based on the the data above, it can be concluded that the use of Simon says game can improve the seventh grade students’ listening skill of Madrasah Tsanawiyah students.