2.1.2.6 Learners’ Problems in Listening Skill
According to Ur 1996: 112, the students face some problems in having listening skill. Those problems are:
1 The students have problems with sound. The students are used to dealing with written exercises and rarely listen to the
foreign speech. This situation caused them to have limited information about correct pronunciation.
2 The students have to understand every word. The students think that they have to understand every word in order to
understand the whole information. The teachers also support this common mistake by demanding the students to grasp every word. This wrong perception
will make the listeners become tired and fatigue easily. The teacher should explain that listeners do not need to pay attention to the whole text, but they
have to select the important information. 3 The students cannot understand fast, natural native speech.
The students usually ask the teacher to speak slowly and repeat the information if they cannot catch the idea. In other words, they cannot understand natural
native speech. In contrast, the teacher has to speak in natural native speech when giving the information. The purpose is to give the students listening
exposure. When the students strongly demand the teacher to speak slowly, it is better if the teacher does not do so in order to make the students get used to the
fast, natural native speech. 4 The students need to hear things more than once.
The students tend to ask repetition when listening to particular information. In contrast, listening occurs only once in real life situation. Ur 1996: 112
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suggests that the teacher uses redundancy text that contains repetition in the important information.
5 The students find it difficult to keep up. The learners feel overloaded with the incoming information Ur, 1996: 112.
The solution is not to slow down the discourse, but to encourage the students to relax, not to focus on the whole text, and select the important information.
6 The students get tired. The students usually get tired if they have to listen to long conversations. This
situation gives good inputs for the teacher to create variations of the speakers’ voice, give pauses and not to make listening comprehension too long.
2.1.2.7 Listening Media
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