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This article was aimed (1) To know what extent can The Annexation of Repeated Listening and Role-Play technique improve the listening ability of the students at Muhammadiyah Buton University, and (2) whether the using of this technique can motivate the students in listening comprehension. The respondents consist of 30 students; they were Second Semester students at Muhammadiyah Buton University. The data of this research were collected using three kinds of instruments: listening test, questionnaire. In analyzing the data on students listening ability and students- motivation, the researcher used quantitative analysis. The result of data analysis showed that (1) the annexation of repeated listening and Role-play technique could improve the students- ability in listening comprehension. The students- ability on pre-test gained category “poor” the mean score was 54.28. In this pre-test, the students- successful was only 57.14 percent. After the treatment by using this technique, the students got mean score 70.14 with the students- passing grade increase becomes 80 percent. (2) Based on the questionnaire of motivation showed mean score 72.94 or 80 percent of the total respondents was categorized “motivated”. It could be concluded that (1) The annexation of repeated listening and Role-play technique could improve the students ability in listening comprehension. (2) The using this technique could motivate students in improving their listening ability.