LISTENING BARRIERS TO ENGLISH FOR SPESIFIC PURPOSE LEARNING: EVIDENCE FROM INDONESIAN COLLEGE STUDENTS

Abstract

The research deals with students' listening barriers at University of Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara. The objective of this research is to know the students' listening barriers. The population of this research was 24 students. Questionnaire primary data technique was applied to get the data in this study were obtained from the answers of respondents who had filled out a questionnaire about the barriers listening in Indonesia college. Design of research used of this study was qualitative design. In this study the reseacher collected the data by using questionnaire that consist of ten questions. In analyzing the data, the writer used some steps that were given questionnaire related to students' answer about listening barriers and listening strategies, processing the data become simple description that focus on the listening barriers and listening strategies then concluding the result of questionnaire. Research result such as cultural differences, accent, unfamiliar vocabulary, and length and speed of the listening. In other hand, quality of recorded materials in University Muhammadiyah of Sumatera Utara already good to achieve a successfulness in their English for Spesific Purpose. Qualities of the materials are one of the most essential elements in the process of teaching and learning. The listening strategies used by the students were cognitive, comprehention oriented, metacognitive, and socio-affective strategy. In cognitive strategy they use writing note as the strategy to overcome listening difficulties, in comprehention-oriented strategy they tend to use situational context and make guesses, in metacognitive strategy they use to be focus to immediately translate the word, and in the social strategy they used to ask exchange with friends in order to overcome listening difficulties. Also, the students use memory strategies to overcome listening barriers.