appropriate technique in teaching listening to the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Bantul.
B. Identification of the Problem
There are some factors that influence students‟ listening skills. The first listening problems arise because of the teacher. During courses, the teachers
tended to use Javanese and Indonesian rather than English. The method and technique used in English teaching learning process in the school does not apply
the communicative principles. The method does not facilitate students‟ tasks and
exercise which provide opportunities for them to negotiate the meaning, take part in the meaningful information exchange, and notice how language is used in the
real conversation. The teaching learning process is more in the form of reading oriented and book minded than the communicative one.
This problem also related to the material and media that the teached used. According to Hornby 2000: 822, material is things that are needed in order to do
a particular activity. Nunan states that materials are an important element within the curriculum, and are often most tangible and visible aspect of it. According to
the statement, material is very important aspect. The materials can be both the materials developed specially for teaching textbook, for example and anything
that need creativity to use it. The authenticity of the materials is needed due to be a good input for listening activities. While media here can be mean as facilities.
Facility is a special feature of a machine, service, etc. that makes it possible to do something extra Hornby, 2000: 471. Media or facilities can be in terms of school
facilities or tools the teachers use to deliver the materials. In other words, media
or facility is the teaching aids helping students to learn easier. Besides that, media can be used as facilitation to brainstorm students thought and help them grasp as
well as generate ideas. The next problem come from the motivation of the students in teaching
learning process. Motivation can cause someone to do something. It is like such enthusiasm for doing something or making something reasonable to do. The
reasons can be what are mentioned in the following definition: “Motivation is the extent to which you make choices about a goals to pursue and b the effort you
will devote to that pursuit Brown, 2004: 72.” The Brown‟s definition about motivation implies that motivation can make students clearly have effort directing
them having behavior to pursue the goals. It also accords to James P. Byrnes, “Motivation is a construct used to explain the initiation, direction, and intensity of
an individual‟s behavior; it has a lot to do with whether students engage or disengage in classroom activity Byrnes
, 2008: 99.” From the preliminary observation, the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Bantul were lack of
motivation. They seemed sleepy and did not focus on teacher while they were studying.
Many people agrees that listening is not easy for the EFL learner. Students have limited language exposure, input texts and other receptive verbal activities.
Student should build a good English interaction with other, which is very important to improve communicative competence. What happens with most
students who have difficulties in wri is because they lack of courage to question,
imagine, and understand the grammar. They are get difficulties in creating topics, developing the topics and write with the correct grammar.
C. Limitation of the Problem
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