Enhancing English Language Learners’ Listening Comprehension through Listening Strategies Instruction

Abstract

This paper is a part of research project carried out to enhance the English learners' listening comprehension through listening strategies instruction. The research worked on classroom action research design, conducted in two cycles by involving a group from fresh year English learners in English study program of Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Universitas Islam Riau on 2017/2018 academic year. The findings revealed gradual improvement of the students' performances in doing the listening tests. At the first cycle, the students could reach 25 out of 40 questions, in which this number is four points less than the students' achievement in cycle 2. Then, in range 10-25 questions of correct answers in cycle 1 could be reached by 24 students, while in cycle 2, there were 32 students got correct answers at that range. Furthermore, there were 6 students could reach less than 10 questions correctly, beside that there were only 3 students in cycle 2. In conclusion, there have been improvement of the students' achievements in listening tasks provided in all meetings during cycle 1 and 2. Although they found challenges in completing the tests, the teachers' assistances in guiding them to apply some strategies contributed towards the improvement of their performances in listening. Keywords: enhancing, listening comprehension, listening strategies instruction Meningkatkan Keterampilan Menyimak Mahasiswa Bahasa Inggris Melalui Bimbingan Strategi Menyimak AbstrakArtikel ini merupakan bagian dari penelitian yang dilakukan untuk meningkatkan kemampuan menyimak para mahasiswa/i yang memperlajari bahasa Inggris, yang dilakukan melalui bimbingan penggunaan strategis menyimak. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan dengan rancangan penelitian tindakan kelas yang terdiri dari dua siklus dengan melibatkan sekolompok mahasiswa di Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu 125 J-SHMIC, Vol 5, No 1, February 2018 Enhancing English Language Learners' Listening Comprehension through Listening Strategies InstructionPendidikan, Universitas Islam Riau, pada tahun akademik 2017/2018. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa adanya peningkatan secara perlahan selama kegiatan penelitian dilaksanakan. Pada siklus pertama, mahasiswa mampu menjawab 25 dari 40 soal yang diberikan, yang mana jumlah tersebut lebih rendah jika dibandingkan dengan hasil yang diperoleh pada siklus pertama. Selanjutnya, sebanyak 10-25 jawaban yang benar dapat diberikan oleh 24 mahasiswa di siklus pertama, sedangkan pada siklus kedua berjumlah 32 mahasiswa. Berikutnya, ada 6 mahasiswa yang hanya bisa menjawab kurang dari 10 pertanyaan dengan benar dan hanya 3 mahasiswa di siklus kedua. Sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahawa terjadi peningkatan kemampuan mahasiswa dalam menyimak yang didasaarkan pada hasil tes menyimak yang telah diberikan pada siklus pertama dan kedua. Meskipun mahasiswa menghadapi kesulitan dalam menyelesaikan tes yang diberikan, mereka mengemukakan bahwa bimbingan ataupun arahan yang terkait dengan penggunaan strategi-strategi menyimak ...

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