39 meant to find out the teachers’ opinion about teaching listening activity. The data
were presented as follows:
a. The Results of the Interview with the English Teachers
The writer conducted an interview with the English teachers of SMPN 2 Yogyakarta on May 26, 2013. The interview aimed to find out the listening
activities in the class so that the writer could conclude the students’ needs and interests in following listening activities. The data obtained were used as the basis
to develop the materials. From the interview, the writer could find out some facts about the listening
activities. As the results from the interview, the writer found out that the listening skill was only taught on the beginning of the meeting for each topic based on the
workbook or Buku PR. The teachers in SMPN 2 Yogyakarta integrated the listening skill with other skills such as speaking and writing. In this case, the
teachers rarely conducted activity which focused on listening skill. Therefore, the students lack listening practice. The teachers only had one reference for listening
activities from the workbook which they bought from another publisher. The reference contained four English skills, but it did not focus on listening skill. The
teachers chose the topics based on the current curriculum and from the workbook. The media in SMPN2 Yogyakarta was appropriate for conducting listening
activities such as speakers in every class and also language laboratory. The teachers had applied pre-activity for the students to introduce the topic
and post-activity to find out if the students have understood the materials. However, the students still had difficulties in following the listening activities.
40 The difficulties were, for example, the students’ lack of vocabulary and the
quality of the audio recording was not good enough. On the other hand, the teachers had some difficulties in teaching listening such as they did not have
enough references and sometimes the audio in the listening materials was not appropriate for the students’ level so that the teachers had to read the listening
script by themselves. The teachers suggested the writer develop interesting listening materials
for the students such as listening with video audio visual and pictures to make the students more interested in learning English through listening skill.
b. The Results of the Questionnaire for Students
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