AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT SMAN 1 MUARA TEWEH

Fatonah,Yulia (2024) AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT SMAN 1 MUARA TEWEH. ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM FACULTY OF HUMANITIES SARI MULIA UNIVERSITY BANJARMASIN 2024.

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Abstract

Background: There are four language skills must be mastered by a language learner, namely speaking skills, listening skills, reading skills, and writing skills. Listening is the first skill of English that should learned by students. This is because before students can respond to their teachers, they must listen first to get information and concepts. Moreover, there are still many students who have difficulties in listening comprehension. Objective: To find out students’ difficulties and factors that cause students’ difficulties in listening comprehension of Eleventh-grade students in SMAN 1 Muara Teweh. Methods: Quantitative descriptive research design and sampling technique using cluster random sampling. Data collection instrument used questionnaire. Results: According to the results, the difficulties faced by students in listening comprehension are related to three categories: listening material, listener, and physical setting. As many as 49% of students have difficulty related to listening material, 52.8% of students have difficulty related to the listener, and 82% of students have difficulty related to physical setting. The results show that the difficulties most students experience are related to the physical setting, there are 97% students who have difficulty in listening comprehension because of poor equipment. Besides, the factors that cause students’ difficulties in listening comprehension were depend on others, and shame to ask the teacher about the material. Conclusion: Based on the results of the research, it can be concluded that most students have some difficulties in listening comprehension, which has constrained their ability to improve their listening skills.

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