Problems that students face in listening at eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan 2014/2015 academic year

Harahap, Suryani (2015) Problems that students face in listening at eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan 2014/2015 academic year. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The research was taken based on fact that students at eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan have problems in listening English. Many students did not have high motivation in listening class, facility of teaching listening has not been complete yet, students were rarely given listening material, and the students’ achievement in listening was low. Based on those problems that the researcher found before doing the research, so the researcher limited to analyze the real problems that students face related with their skill in listening. The objectives of the research were to describe problems that students face in listening at eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan, and to explain the efforts of teachers to overcome those problems. This research used Descriptive Quantitative Method. The data was taken by using questionnaire. The questionnaire was used to get information about the problems that students face in listening through written questions, while the type of questionnaire was Likert scale. Beside the questionnaire, the researcher took the data from getting interview with the English teacher also in which it was used guided interview. The result of the research has found that problems that students face in listening was categorized enough, specifically it reached 58%. The students found problems in listening because of the using of a long English text in listening class, a fast delivering of speaker, unclear accent of the speaker, the using of linking words, repetition, incomplete utterances, idiom/slang/reduced forms, background noise, forgetting what have already listened, finding difficulty in guessing speakers’ utterances, limitation of vocabulary, and a noisy surrounding in listening class. After analyzing the data, it was concluded that problems that students face in listening at Eleventh Grade of SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan was categorized enough, in which it reached 58%.

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