Definition of Listening skill.
In
Indonesia, English as a foreign language has been learned at school, from
elementary school until senior high school. It has four skills that have to be
mastered by students. These skills are reading, listening, writing, and speaking.
From these skills, listening is a skill that felt difficult to be mastered,
because it needs more attention and concentration to comprehend the sounds (listening
material). In the learning process, one of the important parts in creating and
understanding the language is listening mastery. People can not express their
opinion and ideas in English without listening.
Listening
skill is activity to identify and understand what others are saying. Brown
(2001:247) mention that the importance of listening in language learning can hardly
be overestimated. Through reception, we internalize linguistic information
without which we could not produce language. In classroom, students always do
more listening than speaking.
Listening
skill can be meant as ability to pay attention or to hear something. However listening
is not same as hearing. Hearing is essentially an automatic, passive activity. It
is possible to hear sounds without consciously engaging in the process. While, in
listening the brain doesn’t automatically translate the words into the message
they are conveying. That is essentially what listening is determining the meaning
and the message of the sounds or words. It is active process that involves much
more than assigning labels to sounds or words.
So,
we can say that listening is the ability to identify and understand what others
are saying. It is also a complex activity, and we can help students comprehend
what they hear by activating their prior knowledge. Furthermore, it will consider
another way teachers can help ease the difficulty of listening by training
students in different types of listening. Students must be able to use a lot of
their listening ability, if they want to be successful in learning. Listening
is an important element in language besides pronunciation and grammar. We can’t
not express ideas in English without it.
Listening
is always assumed as a passive skill like reading. Which means that students
receive all the information they gain from listening materials without further activity
of producing something either in written or spoken form. Buck (2001:31) stated
that” listening comprehension is an active process of constructing meaning, and
that this done by applying knowledge to the incoming sound”. He also stated that
“listening comprehension is a process that is very complex process, and if we want
measure it, we must first understand how that process works”. Listening is important
in the language classroom because it provides input for the learner, because of
listening is fundamental of speaking skill.
Based
on the statement above, it can be said that listening comprehension is one of
the language skills that are frequently used in everyday life. We spend our time
mostly for listening for our teacher, friends, family, lectures, radio, music,
movie, television and others. In order to communicate effectively we have to be
able to hear what the other person is speaking.
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