THE PROBLEM OF LEARNING IN ENGLISH LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N 8 BATANG HARI ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018

Abstract

This study was intended to find out the s\students problem of learning English listening. The research method used qualitative method and questionnaire design. The population of this study was second grade students of SMA N 8 BATANGHARI JAMBI which consisted of 5 classes with 152 students divided into 69 men and 83 female. Tthe researcher only took randomly 5 class XI MIA 1, 5 class XI MIA 2, 5 class XI IIS 1 , 5 class IIS 2, 5 class IIS 3. The data of this research was collected by giving the questionnaire to students as the sample. The collected data were analyzed by using likert scale. After conducting the research, the researcher found that the problems in listening SMAN 8 as follows: 1) Difficult when students listen to the text just one time students need to practice their listening skills to capture text ideas, 2) listeners also need to take notes while listening to long listening texts. Students often ask to stop recording where there is a sound coming from the corridor or from another classroom. They feel more comfortable if the listening test is done in some places dedicated to listening like lab listening. Listening is one of the important skills in learning English. In addition, there are also three other components such as speaking, listening and writing. For students, it is recommended that they should improve their listening skills on time, so that students can perform tasks easily and correctly in the classroom.