Students’ ability in listening comprehension at MAS Itttihadul Mukhlisin Hutatonga

Hasibuan, Nurhati (2014) Students’ ability in listening comprehension at MAS Itttihadul Mukhlisin Hutatonga. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about students’ ability in listening comprehension at grade MAS Ittihadul Mukhlisin Hutatonga. It was intended to describe the students’ abilities and their difficulties in listening comprehension (listening to the “The Princess and The Dragon story” and “Jack and The Beanstalk story”) and the effort done by the English teacher to solve the students’ difficulties in listening comprehension at second grade of MAS Ittihadul Mukhlisin Hutatonga. The research was conducted by qualitative using descriptive method. The primary source for this research is second grade of students MAS Ittihadul Mukhlisin Hutatonga. Total of them are 23 students. The secondary source is the English teacher of second grade of MAS Ittihadul Mukhlisin Hutatonga. Next, this research used test, interview and observation as instruments. The researcher analyze the data by knowing the students’ ability in listening comprehension, finding the dominant difficulties in listening comprehension, and explaining the effort done by students and teacher. The research found some facts in the field. First, it was found the answer that the abilities of second grade of Students MAS Ittihadul Mukhlisin Hutatonga categorized into enough categories (54.13%). Second, it was found the answer that the students’ dominant difficulties in listening comprehension was students found it hard to rise from the unfamiliar, uninteresting and too long listening which made the students felt strange, discouraged and bored of what they were hearing. Third, it was gotten the answer that the English teacher’s effort in overcoming the difficulties were English teacher often repeated the lesson, asked the students themselves should have more exposure to variety of listening and students should learn the tips or strategies through each of their learning themselves

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