78 Generally, 37.1 of the respondents agreed that there was improvement in
listening comprehension skills, in terms of listening for gist. They agreed that using authentic materials helped them to distinguish the main idea from the
supporting details, supported by clear steps of doing the tasks. On the other hand, some students still found obstacle to distinguish the main ideas and the supporting
details.
3. Drawing Inferences
There were two statements in the third aspect. The first statement asked whether the students were able to understand the relation between two things in
authentic materials, such as cause-effect and problem-solution. Seventeen respondents 54.84 agreed that they were able to understand the relation
between two things in authentic materials. The inferences made might be different from one another students, as they revealed their opinions as follows.
“Yang pertemuan terakhir itu, kalau saya menangkapnya, tentang masalah di kehidupan yang lalu, terus bagaimana cara kita untuk
memperbaikinya sehingga kita mampu menghadapi masa depan. Jadi
problem and solution.”R1 In my opinion, the last meeting material was about our problem in the
past and how we solve it, so that we can face the future. So the relation was problem and solution.
“Misalnya yang Lady Gaga itu mbak, itu kan dari awalnya dia bersekolah, anak baik, tapi merasa itu bukan dirinya karena banyak yang nggak cocok.
Akibatnya dia jadi mulai merubah penampilannya, 180
o
, gitu.” R9 For instance, in Lady Gaga case, formerly she was a good student, but she
felt like not fitted in because there were many things did not suit her. As a result, she started to totally change her appearance.
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79 “Itu mbak, kemarin kan lagunya yang di pertemuan terakhir tu kan
ceritanya tentang perubahan gitu to mbak. Dari orang yang kepribadiannya buruk jadi baik, tapi pernah juga dari baik malah jadi
buruk.”R6 From the song played the last meeting, I
identified it as somebody‟s changes. From the one whose personality was bad turned to be good, and
vice versa.
Meanwhile, fourteen students 45.16 disagreed that they were able to understand the relation between two things in a material. They found that it was
still difficult for them to understand the relations between two things in a material, due to the complexity of the material.
The second statement asked whether by using authentic materials helped the students to infer the connection between the materials and social life in
context. Twenty three respondents 74.19 agreed with the statement.
“Ya,membantu. Karena kadang materi yang ada di authentic materials itu kita juga pernah atau mungkin akan merasakan atau mengalami apa yang
ada di situ.” R9 Yes, it helps because sometimes we experienced or we might have the
same experience as what we see in the authentic materials.
It could be seen from this point that authentic materials were able to reinforce students the direct relationship between the language classroom and
outside the world Brinton, 1991. On the other side, eight respondents 25.81 disagreed with the
statement. There was no further explanation from the respondents. The researcher thus tried to reve
al the information from the teacher‟s perspective. Based on the teacher‟s perspective, background knowledge related to the topic played a role in
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80 the inference making process. Since inferences were based on information that
people had, it was important to choose authentic materials with suitable topic for the students.
All in all, 50 of the students agreed that using authentic materials improved their listening comprehension skills in terms of drawing inferences. The
students found that using authentic materials could reinforce for students the direct relationship between the classroom and outside the world.
4. Listening Selectively
