IMPROVING THE
STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT SMP THROUGH KNOW, WANT, LEARN(K-W-L)
TECHNIQUE
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
English is one of
the language in the world that has an important role for communication. It has
used as an international language in all over the world. It is important for us
to learn it. English is a
compulsory subject in both public and private school that function as a means
of the advancing student in, science, Technology and culture. In Indonesia,
English is taught from junior high school up to university. Levels even taught
it also taught to some elementary school as an optional subject.
There are four
skill taught in English subject namely: Speaking, Writing, Reading and
Listening. Listening as one of the four language skill is a part
of oral and receptive skills. This is a very essential component in
communication: because we cannot catch someone transmitted to us if we do
not have good listening ability.
Related to the
statements above, the researcher did pre- observation that is done at the first
year student of SMP , the researcher faced some problem
in teaching learning English. One of them is the students’ problem in listening
comprehension. Based on the result interview of the English teacher at the
first year students of SMP she said that the mean
score of the students’ achievement in listening comprehension is very low. It
is 4.8 mean score while the target score is 7.0.
By looking in
this fact, lecturer or teachers give variations of teaching technique. It is a
good method to help students activate their prior knowledge. A KWL (Know, Want,
Learn) was described by Ogle in 1986 as a framework that is used to connect a
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