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This research aims to investigate how audio-visual resources improve the students’ listening skill and to explore the students’ responses on them in the intermediate level of Police Language School. The subject of this research was 15 students who were studying on the educational program held from January to April 2013, including two English native speakers as observers. The action classroom research implemented the spiral model cycles. The treatments comprised three cycles in which each cycle was divided into three meetings. Based on the three cycles implemented through planning, acting, observation and reflection in the classroom, the data were collected from four sources, namely from students by giving test items and questionnaires to them, observers through observation and interview, researcher through field notes as well as video camera recordings during the learning process. After all the data were validated, analyzed and interpreted, it was found that the achievement of passing percentage was inclined to develop on the tests starting from pre-, progress to post tests and the students’ responses on audiovisual indicated the positive result. Meanwhile, the use of audio-visual resources based on the checklist observation and the field notes during the learning process contributed to the success of learning in the classroom. Furthermore, audio-visual could be an interactive tool, authentic materials and as a model in testing listening. In short, the audio-visual resources can be explored and exploited as alternative solution to develop the students’ listening skill by giving the students appropriate and various tasks during pre-, whilst and post listening in the learning activities.