FACTORS INFLUENCING STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT THE FOURTH SEMESTER ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM OF UNISI TEMBILAHAN

Mukhdar Mukhdar,Melda Yeni

doi:10.32520/eji.v3i1.467

Abstract

This research was done because the researchers found that most of the students' listening comprehension of the fourth semester was low. Therefore, the researchers decided to conduct research about factors that causing it. So that the researchers want to find out students' listening comprehension factors at English study program of UNISI. This aim was achieved through a descriptive qualitative design. The sample of this research was the students of the fourth semester of English Study Program of UNISI. They consist of 13 students. They were chosen by using total sampling technique. By conducting this research, the researcher found that there are three factors influencing students’ listening comprehension at the fourth semester of English Study Program of UNISI, they are reduced form, colloquial language and rate of the delivery. It can be interpreted that their low result in listening to English monologue text was because of those factors.

Highlights

Listening is one of the skills that should be mastered by the students in order to be able to use English well
As expressed by Chengxing (2005: 1) that "listening comprehension is a complicated decoding process involves a number of basic processes, some depending upon linguistic competence, some depending upon previous knowledge, some depending upon physiological variables”
Mendelsohn (1994) in Gilakjani and Ahmadi (2011: 978) defines listening comprehension as the ability to understand the spoken language of native speakers

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Introduction

Listening is one of the skills that should be mastered by the students in order to be able to use English well. English without listening will be meaningless because trough listening students can learn how to pronounce the words. Without listening to the examples of how to pronounce words well, it is impossible for the students to communicate English well. At least the students should listen to their teacher as exposure in using English. In Indonesia, every student at each level of education should learn English as a compulsory subject. Nowadays for elementary level, English is not as a compulsory subject anymore because of the changes in the curriculum model. English is still taught to them as an extracurricular. It means that English is still needed to be taught to beginners

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