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The 4 Educational Science International Conference
Towards a Sustainable Future of Education: Preparing Teachers and Prospective Teachers for the Digital Age

LANG-01

The Difficulties Of Listening Comprehension Faced By The Fourth Semester Students
Of English Department Mulawarman University

Ventje Jany Kalukar, Pradita Dinda Agtaviarini, Dian Anggriyani
Mulawarman University, Indonesia
ventjejkalukar@gmail.com

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to know the difficulties faced by the fourth semester students
in Advanced Listening Comprehension Course at English Department and to know strategies
used by the fourth-semester students in overcoming the difficulties in Advanced Listening
Comprehension Course at English Department. The design of this study was descriptive with
a qualitative approach. The population was the fourth semester students at English
Department in Mulawarman University that consisted of 63 active students of fourth semester
students at the English Department in Mulawarman University. Data were gathered by
questionnaire and interview. The findings of this study showed that the students had
difficulties in listening comprehension and strategies to overcome it. It was based on three
factors influencing their listening: listening materials, listener factors, and physical settings. In
addition, the major problems encountered by students of the English Department were:
accents, pronunciation, speed of speech, insufficient vocabulary, the different accents of the
speakers, lack of concentration, and bad quality of the recording. Furthermore, the strategy
that the students implemented was using media as a learning tool. It can be concluded from
this study that there were ten problems in students’ self-learning that were found in analyzing
students’ difficulties, they were: lack of vocabulary, poor grammar mastery, accent,
pronunciation, lack of concentration, speed of speech, anxiety, noisy, inability to apply
listening strategy, bad quality of the recording.

Keywords: listening, difficulties, comprehension, strategies

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