The Implementation of Collaboration of Advance Organizer and Graphic Organizer in Teaching Listening Comprehension on the Students’ Listening Anxiety

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the use of the collaboration of Advance Organizer or Graphic Organizer effective in teaching listening comprehension to students who have different levels of anxiety (high/low). The study was conducted to the 2nd semester students of IKIP-PGRI Pontianak consist of 60 students which taken by using cluster random sampling. The data collected by administering a pre-test and posttest of listening comprehension, and from a close-ended questionnaire about students’ listening anxiety. After 10 meetings of treatments, it revealed that the use of the collaboration of Advance Organizer and Graphic Organizer is more effective for the students who have high and low anxiety. The data showed a significant difference from the students in the control group who were taught by using Advance Organizer.