The ability of the XI grade students of SMAN 1 Kotapinang in mastering listening comprehension

Nasution, Irliani (2021) The ability of the XI grade students of SMAN 1 Kotapinang in mastering listening comprehension. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

Listening comprehension was encompass the multiple processes involved in understanding and making sense of spoken language. These include recognizing speech sounds, understanding the meaning of individual words, and/or understanding the syntax of sentence in which they are presented. There are some difficulties that influence the students in mastering listening comprehension to be low. Such as, most of the students are lack of motivation, most of the students cannot answer listening comprehension correctly, most of the students misunderstand what native speaker says, and students are lazy to listen. This research discussed about students‘ ability in listening comprehension at XI grade SMAN 1 Kotapinang. It was intended to describe the students‘ abilities and their difficulties in listening comprehension and the effort done by the English teacher to solve the students‘ difficulties in listening comprehension at XI grade SMAN 1 Kotapinang. The research was conducted by using descriptive method. The primary source for this research was XI grade SMAN 1 Kotapinang. Total of them were 25 students. The secondary source was the English teacher of XI grade SMAN 1 Kotapinang. Next, this research used test and interview as instruments. The researcher analyzed the data by knowing the students‘ ability in listening comprehension, finding the students‘ difficulties in listening comprehension, and explaining the effort done by students and teacher. The researcher found some facts in the field. First, it was found the answer that the abilities of XI grade SMAN 1 Kotapinang categorized into enough categories (59.24%). Second, it was found that the students‘ difficulties in listening comprehension was students 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 that the English teacher‘s effort in overcoming the difficulties were English teacher often repeated the lesson, the students themselves should have more exposure to variety of listening and should learn the tips or strategies through each of their learning themselves.

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