MINI RESEARCH PART 2

A.           Result and Discussion

As Nguyen Ngoan stated in his article “listening to VOA: advantages, problems and solutions” the students have to face these three problems. First of all, the students find it hard to understand proper names as they have never heard about it before. In other words, they have no background knowledge about what they are listening. The second problem is believed to rise from the unfamiliar, uninteresting and too long listening which makes the students feel strange, discouraged and bored of what they are hearing. The last one is assumed to be about the sound connections and intonation spoken by native speakers with different accents.

The researcher has interview 7 students from unit 6 with some questions, these are the result of information and has analyzed by researcher.

The way student study by their own and the strategies will help them to get over  and success in listening: from the interview, the researcher got some information about how the students learning by their self. (1). They prefer like to listen video motivation and inovation than audio. (2). They prefer understand if the speaker is native. (3). When they listen the video, they take a note. (4). Repeat the video until they get the message. (5) sometime they use subtitle to know exactly what the speaker said and how the speaker pronounce. (6). See facial expression of speaker if they cannot understand what the speaker said.

The most common problem they faced: most of the partcipants said that speaker’s pronounciation, intonation and accent is the primary problems they faced, it can be misunderstanding and misinterpretation when they listen the video. Then the uninteresting material is also the problem, because it cannot boost their motivation to listen it. And the last problem is about the student lack of vocabulary because lack information about the topic, sometime the students ever know the vocab but because the primary problem above, they cannot catch it well.

B.             Recommendation

This research has finished finding the common problems which the students in the faculty of foreign language have to experience in listening III. Based on the fact and figure, a number of strategies are also suggested to help them with better listening. To confirm what have been written above, the researcher concludes with these ideas:

Firstly to the students, they should spend much more time on practicing. They should listen to a variety of topics in order to get familiar with them. Hence, the background knowledge will be enriched as well as the skill. In addition, the students should know to apply suitable strategies to each kind of listening text in order to get the best result.

However, the skill of students will not be improved the best without teachers. Teachers play such a significant in building up their skill. By each lesson, the teachers show his students the ways in each stage of listening III. Generally, there are three stages: pre-listening, while-listening and post-listening. Furthermore, he or she will advise their students with the syllabus they can self-study at home. In short, this research does not focus on how teachers carry out their lesson but it is a chance to understand more about the student’s problems.

C.            Conclusion

Listening is vital not only in language learning but also in daily communication. However, the students seem to have problems with listening. Here are the most common problems collected from the learners: The problems are caused from the listening material, speaker’s accent and lack of vocabulary. They also conduct their strategies such as; take a note, repeat the video and using subtitle. In recommendation these are suggestion to solve the problems as well as to upgrade the listening skill for students in English Department of UIN Ar-Ranirry.

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