Listening is one of the four basic skills in learning a foreign language besides listening, reading, and writing. It has been taught since the students entered a junior high school, however, there are some difficulties faced by vocational school students to listen to the recording. After doing observation, some teachers say that they still have difficulties in teaching listening to students since students are not able to express what are on their minds because their lack of actual language. To help the teachers in teaching listening to students, teachers may use an interesting teaching method to present their teaching materials that also help them in creating fun class. One of the alternative methods is Audio-lingual teaching method. The objectives of the study were to explain the students’ ability to recognize word meaning in the context and to recognize the content of text.The design of the research used a collaborative classroom action research (CAR). This kind of research was designed by group which consisted of teacher and researcher from educational university. The place of this research was in SMK YAPIP MAKASSAR. The samples in this research were the students at the second year of class 2 Akuntansi 1. After conducting the research, the students’ means score showed the improvement in cycle 2. It is concluded that using audio-lingual could help to improve students’ listening comprehension.Keywords: listening comprehension, audio-lingual, recognizing word meaning and the content of the text, classroom action research

This study was conducted to know whether or not the use of Information Gap activities improves students' accuracy in speaking skill that cover three elements of accuracy; vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar; and to know whether or not the use of Information Gap activities improves students' literal comprehension in reading skill. This research applied a quasi experimental design; the non equivalent control group design. It used two groups; experimental groups and control group.

This study was aimed at finding out the factors of Buginese students’ interference in pronouncing English phonemes at the Eleventh Grade of SMA Negeri 1 Majauleng. The research applied a descriptive research method. The subjects of this research were Wajo Buginese students at eleventh grade of senior high school at Wajo regency in South Sulawesi. They were chosen by using purposive sampling technique, and there were 20 students involved in this study. The instrument of the research was pronunciation test and reading test form and. The students’ pronunciation in reading test was recorded to be analyzed based on research focused. The results of this research showed that most of the students were difficult to pronounce the front vowels correctly, it indicated that the interference of made by Wajo Buginese students in pronouncing English phoneme occur in substitution of phoneme and the phoneme that has prominent interference was  /ae/. Therefore, students’ dialect of Wajo Buginese interfered English pronunciation in reading.

This research aimed to verify whether the use of Spinning Wheel Media effective to bridging students’ speaking skill in term of pronunciation and vocabulary after being taught through Spinning Wheel Media at the first grade of SMP Negeri 1 Bontomarannu. The researcher applied pre-experimental method with one group pre-test post-test design and the data were collected by giving pre-test, treatment and post-test. The sample of the research was VII 3 of SMP Negeri 1 Bontomarannu which consisted of 16 students. The population of this study was the first grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Bontomarannu which consisted of 296 students in the academic year of 2021/2022. The sample was taken by cluster random sampling technique to select the sample of the research. The technique used for obtaining data was speaking test. The research findings show that the mean score of the students in pronunciation is proved by post-test 53.12 is higher than the mean score of the students in pre-test 34.37. Mean score of the students vocabulary is proved by pre-test 42.18 and post-test 75 and the hypothesis t-test value were 6.54. It means that Ha is accepted. Based on the findings that there is significance difference between the result of pre-test and post-test. Spinning Wheel Media is very good in enhance the students speaking skill in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary.

This research aimed to know the effect of brainstorming technique in fluency and accuracy of the students’ speaking skill. The population for research was the eighth grade (VIII.6) of UPT SMPN 4 Pinrang that consist of 32 student. This research used quantitative method, with pre-experimental research. The instrument that used to collecting the data was test for students speaking in descriptive text.For results of the information; it appears that the understudies cruel score of pre-test in familiarity is 63.59. While the post-test is higher than mean score of pre-test, it is 80.31. With this improvement, it means that there is a significant difference. The means score of the learners pre-test in exactness is 65.31, whereas the post-test was high than 83.12. It implies that there is significance diverse. The results of advancement speaking from pre-test to post-test talking fluency is 26.29% and speaking accuracy is 27.26%. Therefore, Brainstorming Technique gives effect on students’ speaking skill.