A STUDY OF LISTENING CLASS RELATED PROBLEM A THESIS By : Fiona Andrianto Student Number: 07.80.0058 ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAMME FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS SOEGIJAPRANATA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY SEMARANG 2014 i
A thesis deiendcd in front of the iioartl of Examincrs orl ii r-recernber 2014 and declared acceptable BOARD OF EXAMINERS Chairperson : Emilia Ninik Aydawati Sp, M.Hum Secretary :Antonius Suratno, Ph.D Member :Angelika Riyandari, ph.d Semarang, 11 December Z0l4 Faculty of Language and Art Soegijapranata Catholic University tra S Dean \tu. ri, Ph.D 058.1.1996.201 ilt
A TI{ESIS ON A STUDY OF LISTENING CLASS RELATED PROBLEM by: Fiona Andrianto Student Number: 07.80.0058 Approved by : Emilia Ninik Avdarvati. Sp. M. Hum Major Sponsor Co- Sponsor Suratno. Ph.D ui
A THESIS ON A STUDY OF LISTENING CLASS RELATED PROBLEM by : Fiona Andrianto Student Number: 07.80.0058 Approved by : Emilia Ninik Aydawati, SP, M. Hum Major Sponsor Antonius Suratno, Ph.D Co- Sponsor ii
A thesis defended in front of the Board of Examiners on 11 December 2014 and declared acceptable BOARD OF EXAMINERS Chairperson : Emilia Ninik Aydawati SP, M.Hum... Secretary :Antonius Suratno, Ph.D... Member :Angelika Riyandari, Ph.D... Semarang, 11 December 2014 Faculty of Language and Art Soegijapranata Catholic University Dean Angelika Riyandari, Ph.D 058.1.1996.201 iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to thank God for His blessing and guidance so that I can finish my thesis. I would like to express my gratitude to my major sponsor Emilia Ninik Aydawati, SP., M.Hum who has sincerely helped and guided me in this journey. She always supports my efforts and provides the references that are useful for me. She has given advice for my thesis improvement. My sincere gratitude also goes to Antonius Suratno, Ph.D as the co-sponsor who supports andgives his guidance to accomplish my thesis. In addition, I would like to express my gratitude to the persons who always give their supports during my thesis writing : 1. My family who encourage me mentally and financially 2. All of my friends for your support to finish my thesis 3. All of my lecturers who always support me to finish my thesis iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGES OF TITLE...i PAGES OF APPROVAL...ii BOARD OF EXAMINERS...iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT...iv TABLE OF CONTENTS...v ABSTRACT...ix ABSTRAK...x CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION...1 1.1. Background of the Study...1 1.2. Field of the Study...2 1.3. Scope of the Study...2 1.4. Problem of the Study...3 1.5. Objective of the Study...3 1.6. Significance of the Study...3 1.7. Definition of Terms...3 CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE...4 v
2.1. Listening...4 2.1.1. Definition of Listening...4 2.1.1.1. Receptive...4 2.1.1.2. Constructive...4 2.1.1.3. Collaborative...5 2.1.1.4. Transformative...5 2.1.2. Types of Listening...6 2.1.2.1. Discriminative Listening...6 2.1.2.2. Comprehensive Listening...6 2.1.2.3. Therapeutic Listening...6 2.1.2.4. Critical Listening...6 2.1.2.5. Appreciative Listening...7 2.1.3. The Importance of Listening Ability...7 2.1.4. Problems of Learning Listening...8 2.1.4.1. Clustering...8 2.1.4.2. Redundancy...8 vi
2.1.4.3. Reduced Form...9 2.1.4.4. Performance Variable...10 2.1.4.5. Colloquial Language...11 2.1.4.6. Rate of Delivery...11 2.1.4.7. Stress, Rhythm and Intonation...12 2.1.4.8. Interaction...12 2.2. The Relation between Listening and Learning...13 2.2.1. Units of Learning...13 2.2.2. Activation rules of those units...13 2.2.3. Connection Weighting...13 2.2.4. Learning rules...14 CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY...15 3.1. Population...15 3.2. Methodology...15 3.2.1. Questionnaire...16 3.3. Procedure...16 3.4. Data Analysis...17 vii
CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION...18 4.1. The Statements and Problems of Listening...18 4.2. Validity...20 4.3. Reliability...22 4.4. Data Interpreation...23 4.4.1. Clustering...23 4.4.2. Redundancy...24 4.4.3. Reduced Forms...26 4.4.4. Performance Variable...28 4.4.5. Colloquial Language...32 4.4.6. Rate of Delivery...35 4.4.7. Stress, Rhythm and Intonation...37 4.4.8. Interaction...39 4.5. General Impression...42 CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION...44 5.1. Conclusion...44 5.2. Suggestion...45 BIBLIOGRAPHY...46 APPENDIX... viii
ABSTRACT When the students learn English, they may have some difficulties in the process of learning. One of them is in listening. There are 8 kinds of listening problems according to Brown ( 2001, p. 252). They are clustering, redundancy, reduced form, performance variable, colloquial language, rate of delivery and stress, rhythm, intonation and interaction. In this research, the writer used quantitative method to find out listening problems faced by 58 students of the Faculty of Language and Arts of Soegijapranata Catholic University year 2013 who were taking Discovery Listening. The writer used questionnaire to collect the data and SPSS 20 to find the result of questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of 20 statements which among them 17 statements are valid and 3 statements are invalid. So, the writer used 17 statements which are valid. The result shows the students do not have potential problems in listening. ix
ABSTRAK Ketika para siswa belajar bahasa Inggris, mereka kemungkinan mempunyai beberapa kesulitan dalam proses pembelajaran. Salah satu kesulitan dari proses pembelajaran bahasa asing dalam mendengarkan. Ada 8 jenis kesulitan-kesulitan mendengarkan menurut Brown (2001, p.252). Jenis-jenis tersebut adalah clustering, redundancy, reduced form, performance variable, colloquial language, rate of delivery and stress, rhythm, intonation and interaction. Dalam penelitian ini, penulis menggunakan metode kuantitatif untuk menemukan masalah-masalah dalam mendengarkan yang di hadapi oleh 58 siswa Falkutas Bahasa dan Seni Universitas Katolik Soegijapranata angkatan 2013 yang mengambil Discovery Listening. Penulis menggunakan kuisioner untuk mengumpulkan data dan SPSS 20 untuk menemukan hasil dari kuisioner. Kuisioner terdiri dari 20 pernyataan yang di antaranya 17 pernyataan valid dan 3 pernyataan tidak valid. Jadi, penulis menggunakan 17 pernyataan yang valid. Hasil dari SPSS menunjukan para siswa tidak mempunyai potensi masalah- masalah mendengarkan. x