IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ LISTENING
COMPREHENSION AT SMP THROUGH KNOW, WANT, LEARN(K-W-L) TECHNIQUE
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
English is one of the
language in the world that has an important role for communication. It has used
as an international language in all over the world. It is important for us to
learn it.
English is a compulsory
subject in both public and private school that function as a means of the
advancing student in, science, Technology and culture. In Indonesia, English is
taught from junior high school up to university. Levels even taught it also
taught to some elementary school as an optional subject.
There are four skill
taught in English subject namely: Speaking, Writing, Reading and
Listening. Listening as one of the four
language skill is a part of oral and receptive skills. This is a very essential component in communication: because we cannot catch someone transmitted to us
if we do not have good listening
ability.
Related to the
statements above, the researcher did pre- observation that is done at the first
year student of SMP , the researcher faced some
problem in teaching learning English. One of them is the students’ problem in
listening comprehension. Based on the result interview of the English teacher
at the first year students of SMP , she said that the
mean score of the students’ achievement in listening comprehension is very low.
It is 4.8 mean score while the target score is 7.0.
By looking in this fact, lecturer or
teachers give variations of teaching technique. It is a good method to help
students activate their prior knowledge. A KWL (Know, Want, Learn) was
described by Ogle in 1986 as a framework that is used to connect a student’s
prior knowledge to what they are actively learning. The student begins by
thinking about what they already Know about the topic of study. Next, they
think about what they Want to know, and
finally, they actively Learn something
new about the topic. The students can do this activity independently, with
minimal guidance from the teacher, or it can be a teacher directed activity
This possibility motivates the writer to
conduct a research under the title. “Improving the Students’ listening
Comprehension at SMP through Know, Want, Learn(K-W-L) Technique
