Tiara Regita Putri (A12119006)
Firdayani (A12119014)
Andira Risfiani (A12119034)
Jasmine Aryanti R (A12119044)
Solution for teacher:
1. Grade listening materials according to the students’ level, and provide authentic materials
rather than idealized, filtered samples. It is true that natural speech is hard to grade and it
is difficult for students to identify the different voices and cope with frequent overlaps.
Nevertheless, the materials should progress step by step from semi-authenticity that
displays most of the linguistic features of natural speech to total authenticity, because the
aim is to understand natural speech in real life.
2. Select short or simple listening text withlittle redundancy for lower-level students and
complicated authentic materials with more redundancy for advanced learners. Because
elementary-level students are not capable of interpreting extra information in the
redundant messages, whereas advanced listeners may benefit from messages being
expanded, paraphrased, etc.
3. Design task-oriented exercises to engage the students’ interest and help them learn
listening skills subconsciously. Teachers should help their students to develop the
necessary skills of listening comprehension like listening for understanding particular
information, listening for the main ideas, explanation and inference, listening for intended
meaning through providing different tasks and activities at different [Link] such
tasks: expressing agreement or disagreement, taking notes, marking a picture or diagram
according to instructions, and answering questions. Compared with traditional multiple-
choice questions, task-based exercises have an obvious advantage: they not only test the
students’ listening comprehension but also encourage them to use different kinds of
listening skills and strategies to reach their destination in an active way.
4. Provide students with different kinds of input, such as lectures, radio news, films, TV
plays, announcements, everyday conversation, interviews, storytelling, English song, and
so on.
5. Try to find visual aids or draw pictures and diagram associated with the listening topics
to help students guess or imagine actively.
6. Make students aware of different native-speaker accent. Of course, strong regional
accents are not suitable for training in listening, but in spontaneous conversation native
speakers do have certain accents. Moreover, the American accent is quite different from
the British and Australian. Therefore, it is necessary to let students deal with different
accent, especially in extensive listening.
7. Give and try to get as much feedback as possible. Throughout the course the teacher
should bridge the gap between input and students’ response and between the teacher’s
feedback and students’ reaction in order to keep activities purposeful. It is important for
the listening- class teacher to give students immediate feedback on their performance.
This not only promotes error correction but also provides encouragement. It can help
students develop confidence in their ability to deal with listening problems. Student
feedback can help the teacher judge where the class is going and how it should be guided.
8. Teachers should provide background knowledge and linguistic knowledge to their
students while listening to different listening materials.
9. Teachers should provide opportunities for developing top-down and bottom-up
processing skills because top-down activities motivate students to discuss what they
already know about a topic and bottom-up activities give confidence in the understanding
of the components of the language such as sounds, words, intonation, and grammatical
structures.
10. Teachers should encourage their students to develop listening strategies. Predicting,
asking for clarification, and using non-verbal clues are some examples of these strategies
that improve learners’ listening comprehension ability.
11. Teachers should be appropriately trained in speaking skills. Listening is related to good
pronunciation; therefore, teachers should have good and acceptable pronunciation which
can help learners to become better listeners.
12. Teachers should ask their learners to always listen to music, documentaries, and news on
the radio and television, talk to native speakers face to face or on the Internet so that they
can create and reinforce a good habit of listening themselves.
Solution for student
1. Student should start learning how to answer the test individually.
2. Student should often listen to native speakers.
3. Student should learn to focus while on a test, so they can answer the test well
4. Student should listen carefully.
5. Student should trying to practice skills by watching film without subtitles and
listening english songs.