STUDENTS’ PROBLEM ENCOUNTERED DURING LISTENING ACTIVITIES IN STKIP AL MAKSUM LANGKAT

Abstract

This study investigated students’ problem encountered during listening
activities in STKIP Al Maksum Langkat. The subjects were
eighty-three students of the first semester of English Department Study
Program. Basic qualitative studies suggest by Ary adopted in this
study. Questionaries and interview administered in order to collect the
data. The data informed that there were difficulties faced by the
students in the listening activities, they were the speakers’ speed, the
accent of the speaker, unknown words, and difficulties in recognizing
main points. It was expected that enhancing students’ motivation to
practice listening with authentic materials and in every learning
activities administering authentic materials deemed necessary in order
to insincere a real situation of native talks and conversation to
understand the culture and points in their talks. Acquiring amounts of
vocabularies expected enhanced by the students in order to ease the
listening activities.