scholarly journals Exploring EFL Students’ Problems in Listening Comprehension

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Nurhidayah Sari ◽  
Rinda Fithriyana
Keyword(s):  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Academic Year

Listening is a challenging sll for my EFL learners. They seem to do the assignment without showing good comprehension on their answers. This research aims to find out the students’ problems in listening comprehension and identify the factors contributing to the problems. The second semester students in academic year 2017/2018 are the subject of the research. The data were collected by using observation, interview and documentation. The results of the research showed that the students still have low listening comprehension. The most difficult indicator of listening comprehension is making inference. There are only 28% students can answer the questions related making inference. The students also have low confidence in listening skill. They cannot concentrate well in listening to the spoken texts. Those problems are influenced by two factors, internal and external factors. Understanding students' problems leads to the idea of providing better strategies and materials in learning activities. 

scholarly journals EFEKTIFITAS METODE OUTDOOR-STUDY DALAM UPAYA MENINGKATKAN MOTIVASI BELAJAR PKN SISWA IX-D MTSN 01 KEPAHING

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Armizah Armizah
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Study ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Internal Factor ◽  
Complicated Process ◽  
High Motivation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Methods Of Learning ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Main Factor

Learning is complicated process which is influenced by some factors, internal and external factors. The internal factor that is faced by the student in IX D class at MTsN 01 Kepahiang academic year 2018/2019 is low of motivation on learning. Motivation is a main factor in a process of learning because high motivation will increase the result of the study. Beside that, various methods of learning is also needed. One of method that can be used in the class is outdoor study. The research is action research by using two cycles of study, the subject is IX D students of MTsN 01 Kepahiang with total number 31 students. The research is descriptive study, the aim of research is to describe the increasing student’s motivation on learning and student’s understanding on PKn subject. The result of the research showed that outdoor study method is effective to increase student’s motivation.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS LEARNING OUTPUT CASE STUDY D3 ACCOUNTING, PAMULANG UNIVERSITY, 2019/2020 ACADEMIC YEAR

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Yulyanah Yulyanah ◽  
Husnul Khotimah
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Accounting Students ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
School Year ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Questionnaire Method ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Academic Year

The purpose of this study was to determine the internal and external factors in the learning output of D III Accounting students, and what factors have the greatest influence on the output of D III Accounting students at Pamulang University in the 2019/2020 academic year. The research method used is descriptive quantitative, with a sampling technique with a purposive sampling method. The sample in this study were students of D III accounting for the 2019/2020 school year. as many as 63 respondents. The data research technique used was a questionnaire method, with a 1-4 Likert scale measurement. The results of research that have been conducted by researchers from the internal factors that affect the learning output are those related to aspects of interest, motivation and physical health and external factors are the environment and infrastructure. The results of these two factors have moderate criteria with the method (Three-box Method), which means that these two factors have an influence on the output / learning outcomes of D3 Accounting students at Pamulang University.  

scholarly journals ANALYSING TEACHER’S DIFFICULTIES IN TEACHING LISTENING

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Suhud Aryana ◽  
Yanuarti Apsari
Keyword(s):  
External Factors ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Sound System ◽  
National Examination ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Twelfth Grade ◽  
Machine Module ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Internal And External Factors

This research is based on the importance of listening skill for students at Senior High School especially twelfth grade, because they will face the National Examination. As one of English skill, listening is the most difficult skill to be taught and  this process cannot be avoided by all teachers who teach English. Moreover, some teachers still get difficulties how to teach listening to students and this research is focused on Analyzing Teacher’s Difficulties in teaching listening. In this research, the writer used case study and qualitative research method.  The subject of this research was one of an English teacher at MA Islahul Aqidah Cikalongwetan West Java. The instruments of this research are observation, interview and questionnaire. In short, the results of this research showed that teacher’s difficulties divided into two factors, those are internal and external factors. Internal factors which came from the respondent himself such as; he feels the difficulties in teaching, preparing listening materials, choosing method, technique, and strategy. External factors are; sound from environment activities like woodcutter machine, module, media problem as cable injector of sound system to laptop, English laboratory, electric off, and the difference of listening materials in syllabus 2013 curriculum and National Examination materials.

scholarly journals USING AUTHENTIC MATERIAL TO IMPROVE THE STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILL

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Yasser Mallapiang
Keyword(s):  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Authentic Material ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Good Technique ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Academic Year

The research is aimed to find out the Authentic Materials improve the students’ listening comprehension in terms of inferred meaning comprehension at the Second Year Students’ of SMP Negeri 4 Makassar. This research was an Experimental Research. This research was conducted at SMP Negeri 4 Makassar. The subject of the research is class VIII.And in the academic year of 2014-2015 which consists of 30 students, involved 16 men and 14 women who were taken as the responders of the research. The instrument of this research is listening test namely fill the blank test. The finding of this research shows the mean score of students on pre-test in utterance was 3.13. This was categorized as the poor category and after post-test was 6.3 become fair. The mean score on the pre-test, in conclusion, was 3, 53. This was categorized as very poor and after post-test were 6.8 become fairly good.  The use of authentic materials is one of a good technique in teaching listening Skill. The data indicates that this technique had succeeded to improve the students’ listening skill in terms of inferred meaning comprehension at the Second Year Students’ in SMP Negeri 4 Makassar. Keywords: authentic materials, listening, inferred meaning

Study of Consonant Pronunciations Errors Committed by EFL Learners

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
Ali Akbar Khansir ◽  
Afsaneh Salehabadi
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
English Pronunciation ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Knowledge Of Language

As the topic suggests, the research paper presents Study of Consonant Pronunciations Errors Committed by EFL Learners. Error analysis always tries to resolve language learners’ problems in acquiring second or foreign language setting. Learning to English pronunciation is perhaps as important as learning listening skill, speaking, and spelling. Errors in English pronunciation create several problems for English language learners in their works. In other words, most of the English language errors of pronunciation are due to the lack of knowledge of language learners. However, all the students in our sample are of age group (16-25) at Bushehr language institute and they are all Iranian nationals. In addition, all of them were female learners. An English pronunciation (consonant) test was used to get information about the knowledge of the learners in English pronunciation. Findings of this article indicated that the first and second hypotheses of this article were accepted, but the third hypothesis was rejected. However, the findings of this paper showed that the Iranian EFL students have problem to pronounce English sounds correctly.

Meningkatkan Kemampuan Guru dalam Menerapkan Model Pembelajaran Problem Centered Learning Melalui Focus Group Discission di Sekolah Dasar Negeri 187/X Bangun Karya Tahun 2019/2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Mujiem Mujiem
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Implementation Phase ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Academic Year

This research is a classroom action research that aims to improve the ability of teachers to apply the problem centered learning model of learning in the Elementary School 187/ X Bangun Karya, Academic Year 2019/2020. The subject of this study was a teacher at 187 / X Bangun Karya Elementary School, Rantau Rasau District, Tanjung Jabung Timur District, Jambi Province. This class action research was carried out in two cycles, each cycle consisting of two meetings. The results of the evaluation are converted into a recapitulation table of the results of cycle I. The conversion results state that the research has not yet reached the target, it needs to be continued with cycle II. The results of observers in the implementation phase of the second cycle showed that all parts of the learning activities were going well, so that there were no more parts of the learning activities that needed to be improved. While the results of the second cycle are converted with the results of the recapitulation table states that the study has reached the target limit of completeness criteria in the first cycle that is equal to 50% and an average of 68.7 in the initial conditions of improvement in the second cycle completeness criteria to be 100% and the average namely 91.7 states that the Focus Group Discission can improve the ability of teachers to apply the Problem Centered Learning learning model in learning in 187 / X Public Elementary School Build Work Year 2019/2020.

Captions and reduced forms instruction: The impact on EFL students’ listening comprehension

ReCALL ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Chi Yang ◽  
Peichin Chang
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Reduced Forms

AbstractFor many EFL learners, listening poses a grave challenge. The difficulty in segmenting a stream of speech and limited capacity in short-term memory are common weaknesses for language learners. Specifically, reduced forms, which frequently appear in authentic informal conversations, compound the challenges in listening comprehension. Numerous interventions have been implemented to assist EFL language learners, and of these, the application of captions has been found highly effective in promoting learning. Few studies have examined how different modes of captions may enhance listening comprehension. This study proposes three modes of captions: full, keyword-only, and annotated keyword captions and investigates their contribution to the learning of reduced forms and overall listening comprehension. Forty-four EFL university students participated in the study and were randomly assigned to one of the three groups. The results revealed that all three groups exhibited improvement on the pre-test while the annotated keyword caption group exhibited the best performance with the highest mean score. Comparing performances between groups, the annotated keyword caption group also emulated both the full caption and the keyword-only caption groups, particularly in the ability to recognize reduced forms. The study sheds light on the potential of annotated keyword captions in enhancing reduced forms learning and overall listening comprehension.

scholarly journals EXPLORING ENGLISH LISTENING PROBLEMS AMONG EFL STUDENTS AT IAIN KUDUS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azizah Maulina Erzad
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
English Education ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Listening Process

Listening comprehension becomes one of the most difficult skills for most of English learners especially EFL learners. As a foreign language, English is rarely used in communication by EFL learners in their daily life. Therefore, the learners or students always face some difficulties/problems in listening comprehension. It can be seen from the results of their tests. The purpose of this study is to investigate the problems occur in listening class of EFL students at IAIN Kudus and the solutions to overcome those problems. The EFL students in this study refer to the English Education Department students of IAIN Kudus. The participants of this study are the second semester of English Education Department students. This study is a qualitative research. Observation, interview and documentation were conducted to collect the data. By conducting this study, several problems in listening comprehension can be revealed. The listening problems encountered by the EFL students are the pronunciation (accents), speedy delivery and length of the listening, physical conditions, unfamiliar vocabularies and terminologies, and limited facility for listening. Some actions should be done to overcome these obstacles occurred during listening process. The solutions to overcome the problems are students should be focus, practice more in listening English, memorize vocabularies, and prepare a language laboratory.

scholarly journals The effect of Bilingualism on EFL elementary learners’ listening comprehension: The case of Azeri- Turkish vs. Persian students

2020 ◽  
pp. 44-64
Author(s):  
Ali ARABMOFRAD ◽  
Majid SAEIDI ◽  
Mohammad MOTAMEDI
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Elementary Students ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Proficiency Test ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Multicultural Context ◽  
Quasi Experimental

Since the phenomenon of bilingualism is gradually increasing in the world, the theory-driven and practically oriented investigation on bilingualism have increased recently. However, a few studies have been conducted on the effect of bilingualism on language learning in the multilingual and multicultural context of Iran. Therefore, the main aim of the present study is to examine the effect of bilingualism on Iranian EFL learners' listening comprehension in the case of Azeri-Turkish vs. Persian students. The study employed a quasi-experimental design over 8 weeks with 44 female students assigned to one of the two experimental groups. To select bilingual and monolingual groups, a biographical questionnaire was used. Then, Nelson elementary proficiency test was administered to ensure the homogeneity of the students. To fulfill the purpose of the study, 15 bilingual (Azeri-Persian) elementary students in Fazilat high school in Ramian and 29 monolingual (Persian) elementary students in Sama high school in Azadshahr were selected to participate in the present study. Each group received 16 sessions of treatment in listening skill. Then, the two groups' performance was compared on pretest and posttest consisting of a multiple-choice and matching listening comprehension test. The results indicated that there was no significant difference between the bilingual and monolingual groups regarding their performance on listening comprehension, that is, bilingualism did not affect listening comprehension.

scholarly journals Difficulty Analysis Learning Mathematics Society and Factors Cause for Junior Secondary Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 635-638
Author(s):  
Rizki Sariningtias ◽  
Noviana Kusumawardani ◽  
Ali Yasfi ◽  
Agil Syafaat ◽  
Ro’ikhatul Aliyah
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Parental Assistance ◽  
Junior Secondary ◽  
Mathematical Symbols ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Internal And External Factors

The study aims to describe the type of learning difficulties and factors of the learning difficulties of students of class VII SMP N 4 Satu Atap Pakis in studying mathematics subjects on the set material. The type and approach in this research is a type of descriptive research with a qualitative approach. The data collection techniques in this study are with diagnostic tests, polls, and interviews. From the results of the study came the conclusion that the difficulties of students of class VII SMP N 4 Satu Atap Pakis in the material set is a) difficulty understanding the question b) difficulty understanding the mathematical symbols and can not find the keywords of the problem, c) difficulties Transforming the problem, d) difficulties in completing the problem. While the learning difficulty factor is caused by two factors that are internal and external factors. internal factors include: a) lack of interest in students, b) lack of motivation to learn, c) lack of confidence to ask. External factors, among others: a) The class atmosphere is not conducive, b) the influence of handphone in the student concentration, c) lack of parental assistance in supervision at home.

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