A Descriptive Study of Students Perception on Learning Listening Comprehension: A Senior High School Context

Abstract

This research was conducted to describe a students perspective on listening comprehension on senior high school at SMA Negeri Arjasa in the 2017/2018 academic year. Listening is a kind of language skill that expects the students to listen and comprehend a speaker in English. The students have some difficulty in gaining the information that deliver by the speaker because of some problem aspect. The first problem is relating to the content, the second is related to the linguistic feature, and the last is related to the classroom physical setting. The participants of this research were the elevent grade students of SMA Negeri Arjasa in the 2017/2018 academic year. There were 261 respondents then randomly sampled as many as 70 people who were considered sufficient to represent all respondents. The design of this research was descriptive research. The main data of this research were taken by using questionairre. The result of the questionairre was described and catagorized by the researcher into three main factor that is material content, lingustic feature and classroom physycal setting. The results of this study are in the form of data on the number of students with positive and negative categories. They answered the questionnaire based on their perceptions of the three research focuses, namely learning content, linguistic features and classroom physical settings. In chapter 4, the reader will see data that more than 50% of respondents have negative perceptions of listening comprehension. After knowing student perception on listening comprehension, hopefully the English teacher can prepare better in teaching listening comprehension