A STUDY OF TEACHER’S PROBLEM IN TEACHING LISTENING AT SMP NEGERI 11 MALANG
THESIS
BY:
RISKY JUNAEDI EKO 201110100311064
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
A STUDY OF TEACHER’S PROBLEM IN TEACHING LISTENING AT SMP NEGERI 11 MALANG
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Language Education
BY:
RISKY JUNAEDI EKO 201110100311064
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
This thesis written by Risky Junaedi Eko was approved on May 4th, 2016
This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
on May 4th, 2016
Approved by:
ORIGINALITY DECLARATION
This undersigned:
Name : Risky Junaedi Eko
Student ID number : 201110100311064
Program of Study : English Department
Faculty : Faculty of Teacher Training and Education
I declare that the work presented in this thesis was carried out by myself and does not incorporate without acknowledgment any material previously submitted for a degree or diploma in any university. To the best of knowledge this thesis does not contain any material previously publish or written by another person except where due reference is made in next.
MOTTO AND DEDICATION
MOTTO:
Allah akan meninggikan orang yang beriman dan
orang-orang yag diberi ilmu
pengetahuan beberapa derajat.” (Al
-Mujaalah: 11)
Knowledge is my companion, it is with me wherever I go. My
heart is its container , not the bookshelf.
(Ali RA)
DEDICATION:
I dedicated this thesis to
My Beloved father Eko Sasmito Hadi Fiyanto
My beloved mother Atika Rafika
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alhamdulillah, all prise to ALLAH SWT the almighty for the blessing given to the writer during his study and in completing this thesis. Shalawat and greeting may always be praised upon the holy prophet Muhammad SAW who has guided us from darkness into lightness.
The writer would like to express a huge gratitude to Dra. Erly Wahyyuni, M.Si. and Bayu H. Wicaksono, M.Ed., Ph.D as the first and second advisor for their time, worth advice, and valuable guidance. However, he would not be able to finish this thesis without their big contribution. Morever, he aslo thanked to all the lecturers at English Department who have given knowledge and suggestion in finishing my study.
The writer’s sincere appreciation are delivered to his beloved parents who
always there offering ideas, support, encouragment and pray for him. Additional, the writer would like to say so much thanks to all his great best friends, especially Hilda Suat and Titik Puspita, for being his second family in Malang, for their motivation and endlessly laughter in his every down time.
A STUDY
OF TEACHER’S PROBLEM IN TEACHING
LISTENING AT SMPN 11 MALANG
ABSTRACT
Teaching listening has become very important as listening skills are placed on top of primary skill that should be learnt by students. Therefore, the writer was intended to describe the process of teaching and learning listening based on the
teacher’s point of view.
The aimed of this study were to find out teacher’s problem in teaching listening at SMPN 11 Malang, as well as to know how teacher solved the problem. The design used in this study was descriptive qualitative design. The subject of the study was the English teacher at seventh grade of SMP N 11 Malang. To collect the data the writer used observation and interview.
The result of the study showed that there were three problems faced by the
teacher in teaching listening namely problem in managing students’, students’ lack
of motivation, and lack of facilities in the school. To overcome the problem the teacher tried to apply some ways in teaching listening such as 1). Swapping position strategy, 2). Giving reward to motivate students, 3). Applying games or songs to
increase students’ vocabulary, and 4). Maximizing the facilities providd in the class.
Keywords: Teaching listening, teacher’s problem
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL ... i
LEGALIZATION ... ii
ORIGINALITY DECLARATION ... iii
MOTTO AND DEDICATION ... iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... v
ABSTRACT ... vi
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vii
LIST OF TABLES ... ix
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION ... 1
1.1Background of the Study .. ... 1
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ... 6
2.1 Teaching English as a Foreign Language ... 6
2.2 Teching Listening ... 7
2.2.1 Approaches in Teaching Listening ... 10
2.3 Problem in Teaching Listening ... 12
2.3.1 Listening Problem Related to the Material ... 13
2.3.2 Listening Problem Related to Psychological Characterisitic ... 13
2.3.4 Listening Problem Related to the Teacher ... 14
2.4 Problem Solving in Teaching Listening ... 15
2.5 Related Study ... 17
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD ... 19
3.1 Research Design ... 19
3.2 Research Subject ... 20
3.3 Reasearch Instruments ... 20
3.3.1 Observation ... 20
3.3.2 Interview ... 21
3.4 Data Collection ... 22
3.5 Data Analysis ... 23
CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION ... 24
4.1 Research Findings ... 24
4.1.1 The Problems Faced by the English teacher ... 24
4.1.1.1 Problem in Managing Students ... 24
4.1.1.2 Students’ Lack of Motivation ... 25
4.1.1.3 Lack of School Facilities ... 25
4.1.2 The Solution Employed by the English Teacher ... 25
4.1.2.1 Managing Students ... 26
4.1.2.2 Students’ Lack of Motivation ... 26
4.1.2.3 Lack of School Facilities ... 26
4.2 Discussion ... 27
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS ... 31
5.2 Suggestion ... 32
5.2.1 The headmaster of the School ... 32
5.2.2 The English Teacher ... 32
5.2.3 The Students ... 32
5.2.4 The Further Reasearcher ... 33
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
To complement the information dealing with this study, chapter I is going to discuss about the introduction of this study. The writer presents: background the of study, statements of the problems, purposes of the study, scope and limitation, and definition of key terms. Each definition is presented as follows.
1.1 Background of the Study
Language is a very important aspect for human life because it is a means of communication that can help people share ideas, wants, and anything else. Caroll (2008) stated that it is our most important tool in communicating our thoughts and feeling to each other. Nowadays English has spread widely all over the world because people are using English to communicate.
In Indonesia, English is one of subjects which is given in teaching and learning process. The Indonesian government decided to give English subject in every school because it can make students know, improve their knowledge about English, and it can be a tool to help student to become an advanced person who could speak English and interact in the globalitation era well. However, understanding English is not easy because English is a foreign language and it needs more concentration when the students learn. Teachers and students must cooperate during learning and teaching process so that the materials would be delivered well to the students.
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the responsibility to introduce and give the student a basic understanding about English. Generally, in learning English there are four English skills that must be mastered by the students. Accoding to Brown (2001 :232) “....for almost six decades now research and practice in English language teaching has identified the ‘’four skills’’, that are Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing as of important paramount.” So the teacher have to understand those skills that will be taught to the students. Besides, the teacher also has to understand what listening, speaking, reading and writing are, because in each materials consisted of those four skills. Instance when the teacher teach about family, the material will be taught with listening and speaking skills.
In teaching and learning process, listening skill is one of the important language skills, because based on the priority of the four skills, listening skills are placed on the first place since listening is considered as the primary skill that should be learnt by students and listening is a way of the students to understand the information and also helps them practice pronunciation correctly.
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material provision, namely (a) difficulty level of materials, (b) spoken features including rate of speech, (c) clarity of voice, (d) accents, (e) topics, and (f) modalities.
The second problem deals with the facilities to conduct listening classes. One of the facilities in conducting listening class is the language laboratory. Based on previous research; Syarifah (2009) entitled “A Study on The Media Used by Teacher in Teaching Listening to The Fisrt Year Student of SLTPN 1 Gapura Sumenep” describe that teacher faced three difficulties in teaching listening. First was related to the avaliability of the media, second was about cost of providing the media, and third was related to teacher made the media itself. She added that because the avaliability of the media was limited, the teacher should be creative to made their own media but, the teacher did not have ability to make the media that suitable for the students. However, there were many schools in Indonesia which did not have laboratory or the language laboratory did not work well. The data from Pusat Statistik Pendidikan shows that from 12.644 Junior High Schools in
Indonesia, there are only 2.254 schools that have language laboratories. Many teachers argue that the lack of facilities make the teaching listening skills did not delivered well to the students.
1.2 Problems of the Study
From the background of the study stated, the problems can be formulated as follows:
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2. What are the alternative solutions to overcome the problem faced by English teacher of SMP N 11 Malang in teaching listening?
1.3 Purposes of the Study
Based on the statement of problems above, this study is aimed at:
1. To identify the kind of problems faced by the English teacher of SMP N 11 Malang in teaching listening.
2. To identify the alternative solution given by the English teacher of SMP N 11 Malang to overcome the problem in teaching listening.
1.4 Significance of the Study
The significance of this study can be viewed from both theoretical and practical aspect, as describe below:
1. Theoretically, it is expected that this research can be use as a reference for English teacher in developing varieties way in teaching listening, also to provide some alternative solutions which can be applied by the teacher to maximize the effectiveness of teaching learning process of listening skill. 2. Practically, the writer is expected to give positive input to the teaching learning
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1.5 Scope and Limitation
The scope of this study is the problems faced by English teacher in teaching listening and the solution to handle the problems of teaching listening. Besides, the limitation of this study is focus only on the English teacher who teaches in the second grade students of SMP N 11 Malang.
1.6 Definition of Key Terms
To avoid misunderstanding, the key terms used in this study are defined as follows: 1. Teaching is guiding and facilitating learning, enabling the learners learn, and
setting the situation for learning (Brown (1994:7).
2. Problems is a something that the teacher found in order to teaching listening because the students have no sufficient knowledge to follow the instructions. 3. Listening is an active process by which students receive, construct meaning
form, and respond to spoken and or non verbal messages (Emmert, 1994).
