A Descriptive Study on The IX-C Students’ Motivation and the Suitability of Listening Materials at SMPN 1 Licin in the 2015/2016 Academic Year

Abstract

The goal of this research is to determine how the students’ motivation and the suitability of listening materials used in teaching learning process. This research use a descriptive qualitative as the research design and the research subject was the students of IX-C class at SMPN 1 Licin in the 2015/2015 academic year. The data of the research was from the observation, interview, documentation and questionnaire the result of observation and questionnaires showed that the school has a limit listening facilities but students’ motivation in listening activity reach 82, 41% and categorized as very good and the suitability of the listening materials used by the teacher reach 73.57% and categorized as good. It then was able to be concluded that the students’ motivation and of IX-C at SMPN 1 Licin is very whether the school facilities are very limit and the listening materials used by the English teacher was suitable for students at the IX-C class.