AN ANALYSIS OF LECTURER’S DIFFICULTIES IN ONLINE TEACHING LISTENING SKILLS
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Difficulties in teaching listening skills are often encountered by lecturers in an online classes. The difficulties faced, those difficulties affect the concentration of lecturers in teaching and make it difficult for students to understand the material. To solve those problems, the lecturers try to find the best solution to overcome the difficulties they faced. This study is expected to identify the lecturer’s difficulties in online listening classes and to provide the solutions to cope with those difficulties in order to increase student’s understanding in listening skill and lecturer’s comfort in teaching. In this study, the researcher is using descriptive qualitative method, and for the data collection technique, the researcher is using interview and questionnaire. The participant of this study is the lecturers in the second and fourth semester at Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing LIA. The researcher has analyzed six difficulties in teaching listening skills which are often faced by the lecturers and it is found that all those six problems are proven experienced by the lecturers in online class. These six difficulties are dealing with students' ignorance of new vocabularies, looking for the listening videos that do not have an open transcript, determining the listening audio which is not too easy and not too hard either, dealing with the limited interaction, being annoyed of the noise from outside and facing the students who do not want to be open to the lecturer.
Keywords: Listening difficulties, Listening skill, Online class
ABSTRAK
Kesulitan dalam mengajarkan keterampilan menyimak sering ditemui oleh para dosen di kelas daring. Karena kesulitan yang dihadapi, kesulitan tersebut mempengaruhi konsentrasi dosen dalam mengajar dan menyulitkan mahasiswa untuk memahami materi. Untuk mengatasi masalah tersebut, dosen berusaha mencari solusi terbaik untuk mengatasi kesulitan yang mereka hadapi. Penelitian ini diharapkan dapat mengidentifikasi kesulitan-kesulitan dosen dalam kelas daring menyimak dan memberikan solusi untuk mengatasi kesulitan tersebut guna meningkatkan pemahaman mahasiswa dalam keterampilan menyimak dan kenyamanan dosen dalam mengajar. Dalam penelitian ini, peneliti menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif, dan untuk teknik pengumpulan data, peneliti menggunakan wawancara dan angket. Partisipan dalam penelitian ini adalah para dosen di semester dua dan empat di Sekolah Tinggi Bahasa Asing LIA. Peneliti telah menganalisis enam kesulitan dalam mengajar menyimak yang sering dihadapi oleh para dosen dan ditemukan bahwa keenam masalah tersebut terbukti dialami oleh para dosen di kelas daring. Keenam kesulitan tersebut adalah menghadapi ketidaktahuan mahasiswa akan kosakata baru, mencari video menyimak yang tidak memiliki transkrip terbuka, menentukan audio menyimak yang tidak terlalu mudah dan juga tidak terlalu sulit, menghadapi interaksi yang terbatas, terganggu oleh suara bising dari luar dan menghadapi mahasiswa yang tidak mau terbuka dengan dosen.
Kata kunci: Kesulitan menyimak, Keterampilan menyimak, Kelas daring
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