Improving the Students Listening
Comprehension through Dictoglos strategy at the Second Year Students
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 ???????
