THE PROBLEMS AND STRATEGIES IN LEARNING LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Listening as one of language skills plays significant roles in the teaching English as a foreign
language. In line with the importance of listening for the students, teacher has great challenge
how to lead the students, as the second language listener, to comprehend the listening
effectively. Since the reseracher still finds the students‟ problems and strategies, the descriptive
qualitative should be obtained. So, researcher should overcome the problems, explore and
develop new strategies to encourage the students to be productive in the task of listening in
order that they can identify those problems and apply those strategies in constructing their
comprehension in listening independently and autonomously. The problems and strategies in
listening comprehension that can trigger the students to attain those purposes are in the form of
descriptive qualitative. It used the data obatained from 24 eleventh graders through
questionnaire and interview. The results of this study showed that 100% students who got the
problems of interpretation, then the strategy used to overcome this problem was that 100%
students tried to understand the situation. This will benefit EFL teachers to know the students
problems and strategies in learning listening comprehension.
Keywords: the problems and strategies, listening comprehension