LISTENING STRATEGIES FOR STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING

Abstract

This study focused on the strategy for students’ difficulties in listening comprehension. The purpose of this research was to find out kinds of strategies for students’ difficulties in listening comprehension. The writer tried to find the strategies for get solution. This research used descriptive design with qualitative approach. This researcher would get strategies in order to make easier in learning listening for students. Teachers’ role in understanding learners’ existing strategy used of great importance, which requires teachers to be equipped with knowledge and understanding of the listening process to assist students’ listening practice effectively. In this research revealed several challenges that comprehension related difficulties such as rapid speech rate, limited vocabulary, and unfamiliar accents, difficulties in technic such as audio internet issues, and psychological difficulties such as anxiety. Students encounter struggling in real time comprehension such as unfamiliar lexical and phonological inputs. Based on theories there are buttom-up and top-down strategies. This research had other purpose namely with a good strategy in listening process would influence environment during students learning listening to get improvement. This study explored the listening comprehension difficulties experienced by English foreign language students and the strategies they use to overcome them.