A STUDY ON THE TEACHING TECHNIQUE OF LISTENING AT THE SECOND GRADE OF SMPN 1 SEMPU

摘要

Keyword : Listening, Teaching Technique, Telling Story, Identifying Information, Listen and Do, Matching The Pictures and Words, Conversation, andududTechnique application in teaching English is important because it gives a motivation to the students to learn English more actively and effectively. SMPN 1 Sempu was chosen because the teacher of SMPN 1 Sempu has various techniques to make the students more enthusiastic and fun to master English, especially listening. It is very important to know the technique of teaching listening used by the teacher to give a contribution for the quality of teaching learning process.ududThe purposes of this study were to investigate the kinds of techniques used by the teacher in teaching listening for the second grade students of SMPN 1 Sempu, the problems faced by the teacher in applying those techniques in teaching listening for the second grade students of SMPN 1 Sempu, and the ways used by the teacher to cope with the problem.ududThis study used descriptive qualitative design because the researcher described the kinds of technique used by the teacher, the problems faced by the teacher in applying the techniques, and the ways to cope with the problems in teaching listening. Besides, the data collections were explained in the form of words and the data were not analyzed in statistical procedure.ududThe result showed that the teacher used various kinds of teaching techniques in teaching listening. They were telling story, identifying information, listen and do, matching the pictures and words, conversation, and game techniques. In implementing the techniques, there were two main problems faced by the teacher in implementing the techniques in teaching listening, namely: the studentsÂ’ less motivation and the studentsÂ’ lack of vocabularies. However, the teacher could cope with those problems by increasing the studentsÂ’ motivation in learning, and by habituating them to listen to English utterances, telling the meaning of the words that they do not know the meaning, and playing recorded materials through CD player several times.ududSome techniques implemented in accordance with the techniques which were proposed by the theorists, but some were not. The main two problems cause do their problems such as: the students sleepy, tired, or not participative in teaching learning process, or the students unfamiliar with English speech utterances. However, the teacher had various ways to cope the problems either in accordance with the expertÂ’s ways or not. After all, it is advisable for the English Department students to be creative when they become teachers to make the teaching learning process more interesting. It is also suggested for all English teachers to increase the studentsÂ’ motivation in learning and solve the problems in more suitable way in order that the same problems are not often found. Since this study is not complete yet, the next researchers are suggested to conduct the research on other aspects such as: how far the studentsÂ’ enthusiasm when the teacher applied various techniques in teaching listening, or how far the goal achieved in teaching listening when the teacher had appropriate ways in coping with the problems faced.