CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter is about the theories underpinning the topic being investigated. It is needed in this research since it gives the researcher a framework to conduct the
research. The theories of this research are presented in the following section.
2.1 Listening Comprehension
Listening is a process to get information. Therefore, when there is an assumption that listening is a passive skill, that is not really true since listening
calls for active participation in communication and understanding the message Broughton, 2003:65. Then according to Brewster, 2010:98 listening is not a
passive activity. Moreover, Littlewood 2002:66 state that listening demands active involvement from the hearer. In fact, listening may have different definition
for each person. Skhela 2010:14 states that listening is a skill that the listeners may get the meaning from what shehe hears. According to Andrew Basquille in
Akufah 2012:11, listening is the activity of paying attention and trying to get the meaning from something that has been listened.
Listening ability is very important for the students to have in order to catch the informations during the teaching learning process. Nunan 1997:1 states that
listening is vital in the language classroom because it provides input for the learners. Moreover, Henning 1997:146 states that in the classroom listening
should be an active process, with students reacting rather than passively receiving. By listening, we will get some input such as vocabularies and how to pronounce
the words. Listening comprehension is a process, a very complex process Buck,2001:1.
Richards 2008:3 also states that listening as comprehension has assumption that the main fuction of listening is to facilitate understanding of spoken language. The
students do not only have to pay attention to what they hear but also have to use
their knowledge. It is also supported by Buck 2001:31 that listening comprehension is an active process of constructing meaning, and that this is done
by applying knowledge to the incoming sounds. Based on the ideas above, listening is important because listening is known as
the first stage when we learn a language. By listening we get input such as vocabularies and how to pronounce the words.
2.2 Listening Comprehension Achievement
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