AN INVESTIGATION OF STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN LISTENING TO AUTHENTIC MATERIALS

Abstract

The objectives of this research are: 1) to find out the Listening to Authentic Materials Problems Encountered by English Education Program Students of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu; and 2) to find out the most dominant Listening to Authentic Materials Problems Encountered by English Education Program Students of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu. The design of this research is descriptive. Subjects of the research were all of the second semester students who follow the listening to Authentic Materials in the second semester. The number of the students are 74 students from three classes. Class IIA 25 students, class IIB 25 students, and class IIC 23 students. Instrument used in this research is questionnaire to take the data of students’ problems in listening based on Hamouda (2013). After analyzing the data of students’ answers in the questionnaire, the researcher found that most of the students had problems in listening to authentic materials related to the content of the listening text. The researcher would like to conclude that: 1) the
problems faced by all classes of semester II English Education Study Program of UMB in listening authentic materials are: 1) the students faced problems in all variables available in the questionnaire, namely: problems related to the content of listening text; problems related to language features; and problems related to the speaker; 2) the most dominant problems faced by the students were the problems in the variable related to the speaker. It is found that for the problems related to the speaker, the mean score is 75.7; related to the language features, the mean score is 74.6; and related to the content of the listening text, the mean score is 73.5.
Keywords: Listening to authentic materials, students’ problem.