This research discussed The third semester students‟ difficulties in
listening comprehension of English Education Department at UIN Antasari
Banjarmasin. The aim of the study were to found out the difficulties were
encountered by the students and to found out the most difficulties to from three
factors; Listening material, Listeners Factor, and Speaker and Physical setting.
This study used mix method research with sequential explanatory design.
Mix-methods research incorporates qualitative and quantitative methods. The
instruments of this research were questionnaire and interview. The population of
this study was the third semester students of English Education Department of
Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Academic year 2019. The number of
population was 117 students. Purposive sampling technique was used which
consisted 41 students as the subject in this study. The data were analyzed using
Miles, Huberman, and Saldana‟s theory that consist of three main steps: data
reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing and verification.
The result of the questionnaire and interview were found the difficulties
were encountered by students in three factors among: failure to concentrate, lack
of vocabulary and grammar knowledge, variety accents, speakers speak too fast,
unfamiliar topic, pronunciation, bad quality recording, and inability to apply
listening strategy. For the most difficulties, the researcher found out some the
most difficulties namely: difficult to understand the meaning of words which are
not pronounced clearly, noises around, poor quality recording, speakers speak too
fast, using experience and background knowledge, variety accents, unfamiliar
topic, rate of speech, and lose concentration when think about the meaning of new
words.