{"title":"Students’ Linguistic Difficulties in Listening Courses at English as Foreign Language","authors":"E. Eliza, M. Zaim, Refnaldi Refnaldi","doi":"10.2991/ICOELT-18.2019.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2991/ICOELT-18.2019.34","url":null,"abstract":"This article is part of the writer’s research on students’ problems pertaining to the listening skill. The research was to reveal the problems of students who had attended Listening courses at English Department of IAIN Bukittinggi. Although the students had taken three listening classes: Listening 1, Listening 2 and Listening 3, their listening skill was still low. The researcher took twenty percent of the four classes by using random sampling technique, so, total of the respondents were 25 students. The data were taken through questionnaires. The questionnaires were adapted from Hamouda’s. The research was carried out by using descriptive quantitative research design. In this article the writer specifically discusses the problems pertaining to the linguistic features that the students encountered in the Listening courses. Related to the linguistic features, there are eight statements that the students need to respond. The finding reveals that around 50 percent of the students encounter problem for each statement. Therefore, the result of this study hopefully can be a consideration for the lecturers to use the appropriate teaching technique in teaching Listening courses or those who are interested in this field.","PeriodicalId":225591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixth of International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2018)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130535424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relationship of Topic Familiarity and Listening Comprehension","authors":"Ririn Ovilia","doi":"10.2991/icoelt-18.2019.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2991/icoelt-18.2019.26","url":null,"abstract":"In listening, topic familiarity – knowledge on particular topics is considered important to decodeand comprehend the message correctly. This profound role makes listening undergoing influential changes from passive to active process. Due to this fact, great number of researchers and practitioners have carried out considerably number of studies related to listening, especially factor that contributes to listening which is topic familiarity. Hence, this study aimed at investigating the contribution of topic familiarity to students’ listening comprehension. Undergraduate students of ELT were the samples of this study and two tests namely topic familiarity and listening comprehension test were administered. The result revealed that there was correlation between topic familiarity and listening comprehension which signified the more familiar the students with the topic, the higher listening comprehension they would get. Besides, the contribution of topic familiarity to listening comprehension was 33.6 %. .","PeriodicalId":225591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixth of International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2018)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123528926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correlation of Lecturers’ personality and Students’ Motivation in Learning Reading Courses at English Language Universitas Negeri Padang","authors":"L. Marlina, Delvi Wahyuni, Fitrawati Fitrawati","doi":"10.2991/ICOELT-18.2019.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2991/ICOELT-18.2019.2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the results of research on empirical descriptions related to three points in Reading courses at English Department Universitas Negeri Padang (UNP). The three points studied consist of (1) the personality of the lecturer in the learning process of Reading courses based on the student's perspective; (2) Students’ motivation to learn Reading, (3) the correlation between the personality of the lecturer and the students' ultimate motivation in the reading’s learning process. This research employed a descriptive method. The population of this research was all students who have studied four different courses in reading at the UNP Padang in English Language Department. The courses are Reading I, Reading II, Reading III, and Advanced Reading. This study used total sampling. There are three findings from this study. First, the personality of lecturers in teaching and learning Reading courses from the viewpoint of the students were in good category. Second, the students' most motivation in the learning process of Reading subjects is also included in the good category. Finally, this study shows that there is no strong correlation between the personality of the lecturer and students’ motivation in the learning process of Reading courses at English Language UNP Padang.","PeriodicalId":225591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixth of International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2018)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122832818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi Task of Micro Teaching Skills Performance","authors":"Sri Yuliani","doi":"10.2991/ICOELT-18.2019.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2991/ICOELT-18.2019.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":225591,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixth of International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2018)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134133796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}