The students’ perception of advance organizer as a background knowledge building strategy on listening comprehension

Abstract

This study investigated the students’ perception toward Advance Organizer as background knowledge building to the second-semester students of IKIP PGRI Pontianak. Advance Organizer is a strategy that builds and enriches the students’ background knowledge and it is very needed to encounter challenges in listening comprehension activities. A descriptive studies was applied in order to gain the finding of the study by administered a questionnaire to the second-semester students. The researcher adapted the ASSIST questionnaire and used the surface approach as the indicator of the questionnaire. The data indicate that the overall average of the respondents’ achievement is 97,6 and categorized as high. The highest achievement was on the indicator of lack of purpose scored as 82 and categorized as very high. It was followed by unrelated memorizing and fear of failure indicators with the score of achievement 79,5 and 71,7 which were categorized as high. From the data analysis, it was found that the students’ perception of Advance Organizer was positive.