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2025•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
Listening comprehension is considered the most challenging skill in English language learning. Tenth-grade students at SMA Negeri 4 Tarakan still experience limited vocabulary, rapid speech, poor audio quality, environmental distractions, and low motivation. This study aims to analyse these difficulties and their underlying factors using a qualitative descriptive approach through observations, interviews, and document analysis. The findings indicate that the primary obstacles stem from vocabulary limitations, audio speed, inadequate media quality, external disturbances, and affective factors such as anxiety and low motivation. This research provides a comprehensive overview of students' listening challenges and serves as a foundation for teachers to design more effective listening instruction strategies tailored to learners' needs.
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2024•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
This investigation aimed to investigate the impact of audiobooks on the listening comprehension of students in the English language study at SMA Negeri 2 Tarakan. This investigation employed a pre-experimental design. The researcher collected data from a single class, X-F, composed of 35 students. A written listening test was implemented. The results indicated that the students’ score prior to treatment was 53.91, increasing to 77.60 following the treatment. Consequently, Ha was accepted, and Ho was rejected. The findings demonstrated that audiobooks have the potential to significantly enhance students’ listening comprehension. This media offered advantages in consistent speaking speed, correct pronunciation, and intonation, as well as more comprehensive comprehension of context and details in identifying information from descriptive, narrative, and recount contexts. Therefore, audiobooks can be a highly effective tool for enhancing listening abilities, particularly in the context of language education, during the teaching and learning process.
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2024•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
This rserach aimed to determine the difficulties in listening comprehension faced by the second-semester students of the English Education Department at Borneo Tarakan University and the difficulties factors they faced in listening comprehensions. Utilizing qualitative methods, the research involved two classes, A1 ( 34 students ) and A2 ( 45 students ). Data were collected throught listening tests and interviews. Initially, listening tests were administered to both classes, followed by interviews with six selected students. The interview results indicated that listening comprehension was a particularly difficult skill for students. The majority of students, 43 out of 79 ( 61.43%), were classified as basic User – Waystage ( A2 ) based on the CEFR level. The most difficult skills among the 27 assessed were skill 17 “ Listen for Idiom ” and skill 18 “ Anticipate The Topics”. With only 10 students able to answer these questions correctly. several factors contributed to these difficulties including the listening material, listenier-related factors and the physical environment. Specific issues identified were accent, speakers, lack of concentration, and poor recording quality. These factors collectively hinder the listening comprehension abilities of students in the English Education Department of Borneo Tarakan University.
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2023•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
This study aims to determine whether there is a relationship between the habit of singing English songs and listening comprehension. In this study, researchers used the correlational method. The sample of this study was 73 second-semester students in English Education at the University of Borneo Tarakan. The findings in this study are that in the habit of singing English songs, almost all respondents have good grades, with a percentage of 59.7%. In listening comprehension using scores from the Literal Listening course, 38 students got an AB grade, 27 students got an A grade, 7 students got a B grade, and 1 student got a BC grade. The results of the habit of singing English songs and listening comprehension data are used in the normality and linearity tests. The results are normal and linear data, and correlation calculations use Pearson Product Moment with SPSS 22. The results of analyses using SPSS 22 are significant values 0.665 > 0.05, meaning H0 is accepted. It can be concluded that the correlation coefficient between the habit of singing English songs and students' listening comprehension is very weak. Then in the table value "r" for N = 73 is 0.2213 for a significance degree of 5% where rxy r table. So it can be concluded that there is no relationship between the habit of singing English songs and listening comprehension in the second-semester students of the Department of English Education, University of Borneo Tarakan
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2023•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
The purpose of this study was to find out that there was a significant relationship between self-efficacy and listening comprehension of the 2019 English Education students at the University of Borneo Tarakan. This research uses quantitative methods. Determination of the sample is done by total sampling technique. Researchers took 65 students to carry out this research. Data was collected using a questionnaire and a listening test. Self-efficacy questionnaire from Rahimi and Abedini (2009) with 20 statements used to measure listening comprehension skills. This study uses the Pearson Product Moment correlation test to analyze the data. The results of this study indicate that there is a relationship between self-efficacy and listening comprehension, with the value of the rest (0.0640) being greater than the rule (0.244), which indicates a relationship. The results of the listening comprehension test were tested with the TOEFL diagnostic test, which was then converted to CEFR at the student level. The results of the CEFR level conversion show that English Language Education students Class of 2019 at the University of Borneo Tarakan are at level A2
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2023•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
The objectives of this research were to describe the level of students’ listening comprehension and the factors that caused difficulties in learning listening of the eight-grade students of SMP Negeri 6 Tarakan. This research employed a quantitative descriptive design. The subject of this research were the eight-grade students of SMP Negeri 6 Tarakan which consist of 30 students taken by using cluster random sampling technique. The data were collected using a listening test and questionnaire. A test contained 25 questions and a questionnaire contained 28 statements related to difficulties in learning listening. The findings from this research were that the level of students’ listening comprehension was very poor with mean score of 48, and the majority of students (23 out 30) found difficulties when learning English, especially learning listening. There were several factors of difficulties faced by students when learning listening. Those difficulties were related to (1) the quality of the recorder which showed that 60 % of students felt difficult; (2) the culture differences which showed that 53% felt very difficult; (3) the accents which showed that 83% of students felt students; (4) the unfamiliar words which showed that 76% of students felt difficult; (5) the length and speed which showed that 73% of students felt difficult; (6) the physical conditional with showed that 73% of students felt difficult; and (7) the lack of concentration which showed that 80% of students felt difficult. Thus, the highest factor of difficulties in learning listening by the eight-grade students of SMP Negeri 6 Tarakan was difficulty related to accents.
