IMPROVING THE
STUDENTS LISTENING COMPREHENSION THROUGH DICTOGLOS STRATEGY
Action research
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Everybody
has learned their language since they were children, especially their mother
tongue. The process occurs naturally and properly with a view to communicate in
society environment. Listening comprehension plays an important role in
building communication skill, as well as we know, communication is a part of
human’s daily activity. Through communication by using language, we can share
our ideas with other people. In that way, a smooth interaction between people
can take place.
English
is one of language that has been learned in many countries. As an international
language, it has significant role to assist human communicating one another,
more over, in globalization era. Mastering English both written and spoken are
absolutely needed, especially for Indonesians who live in
a developing country.
Besides, it is useful to follow the globalization era to become a modern
nation. Thus, English is taught formally in high school as a compulsory
subject, even now the elementary schools have begun to introduce English in
their curriculum (Nurmayanti, 2008: 1).
Psychologically,
many factors influence the success of learning, such as, the teacher and the
learner. The success of learning depends on the teacher and learner. Rasyid
(1990), the factors influencing the low achievement of language class are low
motivation and interest of the students.
Therefore, in
this case the English teachers have to consider how to motivate, arouse the
students’ interest and ability, and also look for ways to make the teaching of
the language more interesting, so that the students will enjoy learning it and
they can improve their ability on the language.
In learning
language, there are some basic skills that the students have to master. One of
these basic skills is listening. Listening is the foundation of all human
communication
Listening
is one of the most important language skills. Feyten (1991) claims that more
than 45% of communicating time is spent listening, which clearly shows how
important this skill is in overall language ability. However, the
students always think it is difficult to listen well because sometimes they are
bored and not interested in the subject. The lack of interest and motivation of
the students to study may be????????
