Teacher’s strategy for dealing with students’ difficulty of listening comprehension in the Eighth Grade of SMP YPPI Donokerto Surabaya

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Adawiyah, Robiatul (2016) Teacher’s strategy for dealing with students’ difficulty of listening comprehension in the Eighth Grade of SMP YPPI Donokerto Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

In this study the researcher discusses: (1) What are the causing factor of students’ difficulty in listening comprehension; (2) What are teacher strategies for dealing with students’ difficulty in listening comprehension of the eighth grade student of SMP YPPI Donokerto. This study is descriptive design. This study focuses on the eighth grade students at SMP YPPI Donokerto and the teacher as the subject. In this research there are three instruments that were used in collecting data: interview, observation, and documentation. Furthermore, the researcher set up observation notes, used the field to resume interview with the teacher and some of student at the eighth grade of SMP YPPI Donokerto. The finding of the study showed that the strategies which were implemented for teaching listening for students of SMP YPPI Donokerto are various strategies. Some of these strategies are telling story, whispering, repetition words, games, reading newspaper, listening cassette and guessing words. Then, the strategies were implemented well. It was arranged in three phase activities; Pre- activity, While-activity and post-activity. It also showed that there were several problems faced by the teacher in implementing the strategies: the equipment of the listening is lack. Considering the urgency of listening strategies, it needs to improve the strategies applied by the teacher for teaching English at the eighth grade students of SMP YPPI Donokerto. The conclusion is that at SMP YPPI Donokerto there are six strategies used by two English teachers. Those are: listening cassette, telling story, repetition words, whispering, guessing meaning, dictation and games. The suggestions hope the teachers are expected to improve the other strategies teaching listening and also complete the equipment of teaching listening.