AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION ABILITY: A CASE STUDY AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 2 LEMBAR IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2016 /2017

PUTRI, ANDI LOMANIA CHENI MULYA (2017) AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION ABILITY: A CASE STUDY AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 2 LEMBAR IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2016 /2017. S1 thesis, Universitas Mataram.

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Abstract

This thesis was aimed to find out the students’ difficulties in listening comprehension and the factors which contribute to the listening difficulties which were faced by the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Lembar in academic year 2016/2017. This study is a case study research which was conducted at SMA Negeri 2 Lembar. The sample of the study was 44 students, where the writer took all of the population as the sample, this method sampling was called population sampling. In collecting the data, three kinds of instruments were used by the writer, those are listening comprehension tests based on transcript of English National Examination in academic year 2014/2015 and 2015/2016, questionnaire which was adopted from International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development of Hamouda (2013), and interview. The students’ ability in listening comprehension based on the result of listening comprehension tests. The students’ result in listening comprehension test based on of English National Examination test in academic year 2014/2015: 13 students (29,5%) are poor, 31 students (70,5%) are very poor and there are no students at satisfying, good, and very good categories. The sudents’ result based on listening test based on English National Examination in academic year 2015/2016: 7 students (15,90%) are poor, 34 students (84,09%) are very poor, 1 student is satisfying, and there are no students at good and very good categories. In conclusion, the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Lembar have very poor listening comprehension ability. The result of questionnaire and interview presented the students’ difficulties in listening comprehension, such as: unfamiliar words, unfamiliar topic, the complexities of grammatical structures, the length of listening materials, the speed of speakers speak, unclear pronunciation, variety of speakers’ accent, noisy environment, and unclear recorded sounds. The causes of the students got the difficulties: lack of students’ vocabulary mastery, lack of students’ grammatical knowledge, lack of listening practice inside and outside the English class, lack of students’ concentration and noisy environment. In addition, the students also were dislike English lesson and they thought listening was language skill which was difficult to learn.

Item Type:	Thesis (S1)
Keywords (Kata Kunci):	Listening skill, Listening comprehension, Listening comprehension difficulties
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions:	Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Depositing User:	Wiwin Kartikawati
Date Deposited:	07 Apr 2018 14:04
Last Modified:	07 Apr 2018 14:04
URI:	http://eprints.unram.ac.id/id/eprint/2141

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