By Evi Rani
Nowadays, English become international language and
people are required to be able communicate in English. Even thought, many of
them take some courses to improve their ability in spoken English. However,
English listening is a kind of English skills which is hard to be improved. Why
is English Listening so difficult? There must be some reasons.
(OPINION) The
first factor is native speakers. Most
students agree that English Listening is difficult to be improved. Both of high
school students and college students have the same problem. According to Nanda
Tri Herwika, a senior high school student who wanted to take English as her
major, the causes did not always come from internal. “External factor like the
native speaker can influence the listener,” said her. On the other hand, Mei
Dwi Cipta and Novantry Ramadhan, students of senior high school in third grade,
agreed that native speakers were difficult to be followed. “The native speakers
have different accent with us, so we have difficulties in understanding what
they said,” said the other students at the same school with Nanda and Mei,
“sometimes it is hard for us to catch what they said because their
pronunciation is not too clear.”
(FACT)The second factor is
the speed of speech. In the diagram beside, the second factor after native
speaker is followed by the speed of speech. The listeners could not catch what
the speakers said in high speed clearly. Moreover, if the speakers said too
slowly, the listeners would get bored to wait them. According to the data, a quarter number
of the respondent stated that they often could not catch what the speaker said
because of the speed of speech. There are 25% from 40 respondents who agree
that the speed of speech can influence the readers. Moreover, English people
and Indonesian people have different speed in speech.
The
last factor is that the content. According to Larry M. Lynch, 2005, of the four basic English language
skills, reading, writing, speaking and listening, the most difficult to acquire
is listening comprehension. It is also the one skill which cannot be
"taught". There are four factors which can affect the difficulty of
language listening tasks. Here is what they are and how they affect listening
comprehension skills. The content includes grammar, vocabulary, and background
knowledge assumed. The grammar and structure should be familiar for the
listeners. Moreover, the vocabulary belongs to the content. If more than 10 of the words are unknown, the text
has less than a 90% vocabulary recognition rate.
It is clear that the native speakers
and the speech of speed are the most problem for listener in English Listening.
The listeners can also be a problem that from internal. However, we will not
have difficulties in English Listening if we always practice over and over.
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