CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Everybody
has learned their language since they were children, especially their mother
tongue. The process occurs naturally and properly with a view to communicate in
society environment. Listening comprehension plays an important role in
building communication skill, as well as we know, communication is a part of
human’s daily activity. Through communication by using language, we can share
our ideas with other people. In that way, a smooth interaction between people
can take place.
English
is one of language that has been learned in many countries. As an international
language, it has significant role to assist human communicating one another,
more over, in globalization era. Mastering English both written and spoken are
absolutely needed, especially for Indonesians who live in a developing country.
Besides, it is useful to follow the globalization era to become a modern
nation. Thus, English is taught formally in high school as a compulsory
subject, even now the elementary schools have begun to introduce English in
their curriculum (Nurmayanti, 2008: 1).
Psychologically,
many factors influence the success of learning, such as, the teacher and the
learner. The success of learning depends on the teacher and learner. Rasyid
(1990), the factors influencing the low achievement of language class are low
motivation and interest of the students.
Therefore, in
this case the English teachers have to consider how to motivate, arouse the
students’ interest and ability, and also look for ways to make the teaching of
the language more interesting, so that the students will enjoy learning it and
they can improve their ability on the language.
In learning
language, there are some basic skills that the students have to master. One of
these basic skills is listening. Listening is the foundation of all human
communication
Listening is
one of the most important language skills. Feyten (1991) claims that more than
45% of communicating time is spent listening, which clearly shows how important
this skill is in overall language ability. However, the students always
think it is difficult to listen well because sometimes they are bored and not
interested in the subject. The lack of interest and motivation of the students
to study may be caused by the methods and techniques that are not suitable with
the students’ need or the students’ interest. Of course it can be the serious
problems for the students. As the result, they are not enthusiastic in learning
English and it can influence their achievement such as in listening
comprehension.
As a teacher, it is important to find out some methods to solve the
problems that faced by the students. One way to attract the students’ attention
in learning English especially for listening is using dictogloss strategy. The
use of dictogloss as a strategy in teaching listening will help the students to
be an active listener. Active listening make the students listen with an active
mind so that they can understand and know about the meaning. The use of
Dictogloss in the classroom will make the students interested and enjoyed in
learning language because it is a classroom dictation activity where learners
listen to a passage, note down key words and then work together to create a
reconstructed version of the text.
The listening
comprehension is the concentration of this research because this skill is
required to understand people in speaking and it is required to make
communication in English. Students may be able to speak English but they get
difficulties on their listening. The poor ability in listening will make
students difficult to understand or interpret the message sent by the speaker.
Based on the
information from an English teacher and observation result about the students
achievement especially in listening comprehension at SMA PGRI Sungguminasa, the
students achievement in listening comprehension are still low where the
students value average 6,0 while the standard of listening comprehension is
6,7. It is because the students seldom practice listening in teaching-learning
process. They tend to focus on writing and grammar. Therefore, the researcher
wants to overcome this problem until get the standard value.
Based on the
background above, the writer is stimulated to conduct research under the title
of “Improving
the Students Listening Comprehension through Dictoglos strategy at the Second
Year Students of SMA .”
