American Accent Training To Develop Toefl Listening Comprehension Skill Of First Year Students At PGRI Univeristy Of Yogyakarta

This study is aimed at developing students’s ability in encountering TOEFL Listening Comprehension. It is conducted by finding the correlation between pronunciation and listening. Researcher uses Barron’s American Accent Training as the media. The particiapts are 28 first year students of English Department of PGRI University of Yogyakarta. Students enrolled a pre-test to measure their ability in listening comprehension. After pre-test students are given the American Accent Training in 4 sections. At the end of the training students enrolled post-test to observe the effectivity of American English Accent. The result of both tests show that the average number of correct in listening comprehension is 7.5 on the pre-test and 17.3 on the post-test. Thus, the average number of correct increases up to 10%. It can be said that the number of correct has significantly boosted. It proves that there is a positive effect between listening and pronunciation