Problems in Listening Comprehension of International Standardized Test: A Study at Islamic State High school in West Lombok
- DOI
- 10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.9How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- standardized test, listening ability, problems in listening comprehension
- Abstract
In recent years, standardized testing has become the most efficient tool adopted by institutions to measure one’s ability in English Proficiency. All master students in university have to get a certain score of their English proficiency test as the requirement before their graduation. To develop teachers’ professionality, teachers of Islamic Schools are suggested to upgrade their teaching proficiency by having master degrees in their scientific fields. The popular problem when they tried to finish their study is their low scores of English Proficiency. This study is to find out teachers’ scores in listening comprehension test as well as to discover their problems and possible recommendation in order to increase their listening skill. The subject of the study are teachers of Islamic senior high school in West Lombok. There are 19 teachers as respondents. To gain the teachers’ level of comprehension of listening skills, TOEFL-Like test was conducted. While to have teachers’ perspective related to their problems, questionnaire and interview were done as well. The result would then describe the teachers’ scores and its possible relation to their problems as well as possible recommendation for increasing their listening skill regarding the problems faced. Finally, there would also be recommendation concerning their professional development in having better English proficiency.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Kurniawan Apgrianto AU - Sribagus AU - L Nurtaat AU - Husnul Lail PY - 2019/06 DA - 2019/06 TI - Problems in Listening Comprehension of International Standardized Test: A Study at Islamic State High school in West Lombok BT - Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 43 EP - 47 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.9 DO - 10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.9 ID - Apgrianto2019/06 ER -