Ahsaniah, Ahsaniah (2012) The Students’ Difficulties in Learning Listening at the Eleventh Grade of MAN Negara Academic Year 2011/2012. Skripsi, Tarbiyah dan Keguruan.

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Ahsaniah. 2012. The Students’ Difficulties in Learning Listening at the Eleventh Grade of MAN Negara Academic Year 2011/2012. Thesis. English Education Department, Tarbiyah Faculty. Advisors: (I) Drs. H. Ahdi Makmur, P.hD, (II) Hj. Noor Maulidiyah, MA. Keywords: Difficulties, learning, listening Listening is the first skill that is learnt in language. It is very important skill in language because by vocabulary they get from listening, students can produce language like speaking and writing. Students also can understand what the other people say by listening. MAN Negara is a school that has language laboratory facility which is necessary for teaching listening. Therefore, in this research, the writer describes about the students’ difficulties in learning listening at the eleventh grade of MAN Negara academic year 2011/2012. The formulation of the problems in this research are: What are the students’ difficulties in learning listening, and what is the dominant category of difficulties in listening. The subject of this research are 190 students of the eleventh grade of MAN Negara in academic year 2011/2012. The object of this research is the students’ difficulties in learning listening at the eleventh grade of MAN Negara Academic Year 2011/2012. To collect the data, the writer uses some techniques such as test, interview, and documentary. Data processing in this research is divided into four phases: editing, coding, scoring, and classifying. Then, all the data are analyzed descriptively, qualitatively, and quantitatively and concluded inductively. The result of this research shows that the students’ difficulties in learning listening at the eleventh grade of MAN Negara academic year 2011/2012 are the students have difficulty to discriminate voiced and voiceless and minimal pair sounds in phoneme discrimination test, they also lack in vocabulary, so they have difficulty to understand short dialogue by answering multiple choice items. The students do not understand the grammar that used in the text and they have common mistakes in spelling in filling in the blank question. The students’ difficulties in learning listening at the eleventh grade of MAN Negara academic year 2011/2012 is in average category. It is based on the calculation of the mean of students’ score 34.23, and it is interpreted as average category with the percentage 70%. The dominant category of the difficulties in listening is understanding short dialogue by answering fill in the blank questions. From 190 students, there are 61 students that have point 0 in answering fill in the blank questions. The mean students’ score in understanding short dialogue by filling in the blank questions at the eleventh grade of MAN Negara academic year 2011/2012 is 4.22. It means that the filling in the blank question is the most difficult of all.

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