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INVESTIGATING THE CHALLENGES IN LISTENING SKILL FACED BY THE FIFTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY PALEMBANG
In the process of learning English particularly in listening, many students will encounter many challenges. These challenges will heavily affect the students’ performance during the progress and may result with poor outcomes from the students. Some challenges were addressed in this study, with the aims of them were to find out ; (1) the challenges in listening faced by the students of Muhammadiyah University Palembang, (2) the most dominant challenge in listening faced by the students of Muhammadiyah University Palembang, (3) the students’ perspective on listening subject in Muhammadiyah University Palembang. This research used a descriptive method. The population of this study was the students of English Education Study Program in Muhammadiyah University Palembang. The total number of the population was 48. There were 48 students selected purposively. Thirty six questions of listening comprehension test and sixty one items of questionnaires were administered to the samples. The data obtained from the test were analyzed statistically and the percentage analysis were used. Furthermore the data were used as the answers for the three main questions in this research. The results showed that (1) the fifth semester students of English Education of Muhammadiyah University faced various kinds of listening challenges, such as; enhancing listening skills, understanding the content of the listening text, comprehending linguistic features, getting failure to concentrate, learners’ perceptions related to psychological characteristics, listening problems related to listener, listening problems related to the speaker, listening problems related to the physical setting, (2) the most dominant challenge was the students’ perception of the listening problem related to the psychological characteristics, (3) The student’s perspective towards listening subject was fairly good, in a way that they were confident with their own ability in it.
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