STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT THE THIRD YEAR OF MADRASAH ALIYAH DINIYAH PUTERI PEKANBARU

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This paper entitled: Students’ difficulties in listening comprehension at the third
year of Madrasah Aliyah Diniyah Puteri”.
The writer is interested in conducting this research. In accordance with the
symphtoms, the writer has seen some problems that should be discuss, ed and overcome.
Firstly, how students’ difficulty in listening comprehension is, second what students’
difficulties in listening comprehension are, and third what factors that cause students’
difficulties in listening comprehension.
This research is carried out at Madrasah Aliyah Diniyah Puteri Pekanbaru. The
subject of this research is the third year students of Madrasah Aliyah Diniyah Puteri
Peknabaru and the object of this research is students’ difficulties in listening
comprehension.
To collect the data, the writer used test and questionnaire as instruments. Test is
used to obtain the level of students’ difficulty in listening comprehension and questionnaire
is used to identify what are students’ difficulties in listening comprehension and what
factors that cause students’ difficulties in listening comprehension.
Test is done students should answer listening comprehension questions, the
questions consists of 25 items, after the data obtained, the writer analyzed the percentage of
level difficulty by using the following formula:
P = X
. 100
N
To get the level of students’ difficulty in listening comprehension, writer uses the
following criteria:
High 76% - 100%
Middle 60% - 75%
Low 0% - 59%
To obtain the mean score of the level of students’ difficulty in listening
comprehension, writer uses formula:
M =
? Fx

N
After giving a test, writer also gives questionnaires. After the data obtained, writer:
analyzed questionnaire by using formula:
P = F x 100
N
Finally, based on the writer’s investigation, the level of students’ difficulty in
listening comprehension is classified into middle level, students’ difficulties in listening
comprehension are vocabularies, speed, and interpretation. Some factors that cause
students’ difficulties in listening comprehension are teacher does not teach listening
comprehension intensively, students’ do not listen English sounds very often, students’ do
not have background knowledge about the content of the cassettes.

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