Students’ Listening Difficulties in English as a Foreign Language Learning at Secondary School in Indonesian Context

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10.2991/assehr.k.210430.029How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Listening Comprehension, Listening Difficulties, Perceptions

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the students’ difficulties in listening and to explore the factors of students’ listening difficulties. The writer uses mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) with questionnaire and interview as the data collecting techniques. The participants of this research are 100 students of a senior high school in West Java who filled in the questionnaires and 8 students who took part in in-depth interviews. The quantitative approach is used to show the numeric data of the questionnaire about students’ listening difficulties and the qualitative approach is applied to explore the factors of students’ listening difficulties. The findings of the research show that the difficulties in listening skills faced by students include unfamiliar words, rate of speech, unfamiliar accent, unclear pronunciation, recording quality, and inadequate facility. As for the factors of those difficulties, it involed the students’ background knowledge, lack of practices and environment noise.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Syifa Nadhira
AU  - Silih Warni
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/03
TI  - Students’ Listening Difficulties in English as a Foreign Language Learning at Secondary School in Indonesian Context
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Annual International Conference on Natural and Social Science Education (ICNSSE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 186
EP  - 193
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210430.029
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210430.029
ID  - Nadhira2021
ER  -