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Taking these effects into consideration, in the language classroom it is important to be concerned about learners’ self-esteem. However, this implies
more than doing occasional activities to make students reflect about their worthiness and competence. As a first step, teachers themselves need to be aware
of their own self-esteem, to understand what self-esteem is, what are the sources and components, and how its applications can be implemented in the language
classroom. This implementation should be based on a valid framework. Having examined the explanations above, the research is conducted under
the title: The Effectiveness of Diagnostic Approach in Teaching Listening Viewed from Students’ Self-Esteem An Experimental Study on the Seventh Grade
Students of SMP Negeri 1 Ponorogo in the Academic Year of 20132014.
B. Problem Identification
Related to the background of the study above, the problems can be formulated:
1. Is Diagnostic approach an appropriate approach in teaching listening so the students are able to improve their listening comprehension?
2. Is Comprehension approach an appropriate approach in teaching listening so the students are able to improve their listening comprehension?
3. Is listening a complicated language for the students of SMP Negeri 1 Ponorogo?
4. Are the students confused when their teacher asks them a question using English and their teacher asks them to answer it in English?
5. Do the students tend to be silent in taking part in English class activity?
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6. Does the teacher teach using monotonous style? 7. Does the students’ self-esteem influence their listening skill?
8. How can the students with high self-esteem get a better achievement in listening than the students with low self-esteem?
9. Is there any interaction between teaching approaches and self-esteem to teach listening?
C. Problem Limitation
According to the background of the study and identification of the problems, this research is limited to teach listening by Diagnostic approach and
Comprehension approach viewed from the students’ self-esteem. Later, it is conducted for the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Ponorogo in the
Academic Year of 20132014.
D. Problem Statement
According to the problem limitation, the problems of the study can be formulated:
1. Is Diagnostic approach more effective than Comprehension approach in
teaching listening for the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Ponorogo in the Academic Year of 20132014?
2. Do the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Ponorogo in the Academic
Year of 20132014 who have higher self-esteem have better listening skill than those who have lower self-esteem?
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3. Is there any interaction between teaching approaches and students’ self-
esteem in teaching listening for the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Ponorogo in the Academic Year of 20132014?
E. Research Objectives
