HOW TO LISTEN WELL??????????

_INTRODUCTION

Listening is a mental process of learning that are not visible, and listening is a very difficult lesson or not easy, because listening is where we have to understand what the speaker said, to understand the meaning of what was said the speaker, in response to what the speaker was talking about the brain training us to imagine what the speaker was talking about. It was very easy to do when the speaker and listener understand each language used, and sebalikya listen it will be difficult when the speaker uses language that listeners still not well understood. For example, use English speaker and the listener still beleajar basic English, as often happens in a school english class. In English classes in schools listening lessons are the hardest lessons according to the students, although the students were able to work on the problems with the English language well, but not necessarily listen to their biased test pass. because students consider the example given when subjects listened to it very difficult to understand because it was too fast and use a lot of speaking vocabulary of unknown or new vocabulary and pronunciation according to them that is almost similar to other words.

That's why we have to train our hearing often listen english conversation like seeing a movie western, song western and hear others. In addition we also have to train our speech to eliminate ucapn trouble understanding other people.

DISCUSSION

HOW TO LISTEN WELL?

Research has demonstrated that adults spend 40-50% of communication time listening (Gilman & Moody 1984), but the importance of listening in language learning has only been recognized relatively recently (Oxford 1993). Since the role of listening comprehension in language learning was taken for granted, it merited little research and pedagogical attention. Although listening played an important role in audio-lingual methods, students only listened to repeat and develop a better pronunciation (for speaking). Beginning in the early 70's, work by Asher, Postovsky, Winitz and, later, Krashen, brought attention to the role of listening as a tool for understanding and a key factor in facilitating language learning. Listening has emerged as an important component in the process of second language acquisition (Feyten, 1991). This research base provides support for the pre-eminence of listening comprehension in instructional methods, especially in the early stages of language learning.

There are two kinds of listening: internal and external. External Listening is what we are focusing on-listening to other people and things outside of you. But Internal Listening is very important: it is the ability to listen to yourself. To be in tune with your mind and body. And there are two differences in listening comprehension, the first listeners use knowledge about the topic, listen to the context, type text, and other information that has been stored in the memory that has been known to understand the meaning of a spoken message or discussion by the second pembicara.dan listeners use linguistic knowledge (language / the study of language), here the listener tries to connect grammatical knowledge (language / the study of grammar) meaning lexical (vocabulary / the study of vocabulary) of the meaning of the sound level is lower to arrive at the final message the speaker to understand the meaning / significance of the spoken message or discussion by the speakers. But both the understanding is not too important, the important thing is to have a mutual process / action and is to hold the impression of an opinion and views relating to the interpretation / meaning of the provision in which listeners use linguistic knowledge to understand the message. Someone who uses the first hearing or understanding others to listen to it depends on the listener knowledge of the language used by the speaker, the topic being discussed, and the purpose of listening.

And how to listen well is it?????

1.   Concentration in listening

          Concentration is part of the characteristics of listening, without attention or concentration, of course we will not understand the spoken word a speaker. Because when we do not get to listen to the letters that told of a conversation or visual images to support the concentration hear us, but sometimes the speakers will provide the images to make it easier for the listener to understand what they were saying, but it was only some time. So while in English class listening to the lesson we have to really concentrate to hear a talk in front of us. Do not do other activities that can make us disturbed concentration.

2.   Attention to the speaker

          When we listen, we have to pay attention to someone who spoke with us by looking at the person, other than we appreciate the people who spoke with the attention that will help us to concentrate on what is said by people who speak to us. Because sometimes the speaker will give an overview of what is said to perform movements. But still have to concentrate.

3.   Do not interpret word for word from the speaker

          When we become listeners, we will try to get information of what the speaker to convey to us a way to get an idea of ​​what the subject, for it should never interpret word for word from every word that comes out of the mouth of the speaker, it will hinder our karana as a good listener to grasp what the main idea of ​​the message conveyed by the speaker to us.

4.   Imagination

          When listening we will get a basic idea of ​​what the speaker to convey to us, and when we had to get the main idea of ​​the message delivered so berimajinasilah to imagine what is conveyed by the speaker in order to help us in getting the message to be conveyed by the speaker to us as listeners is good.

5.   Do not criticize or interrupt the conversation when the speaker has not completed

          As a good listener permit or give the opportunity for the speaker to finish the conversation without bothering to give it karnena interruptions can disrupt the concentration of the speaker, other than that we would feel disappointed over the attitude we interrupted her, when we give criticism or interrupt the conversation when the speaker has not been completed, because it will also be difficult for us to make the process of listening.

6.   Practicing

Basically, all people experience the same thing when learning English, from memorizing vocabulary, understand grammar and other language structures although easily achieved in practice but most quickly forgotten, such as an understanding of tenses which quickly disappeared.
The problems on the actual fault of the learner, but it could be an error in the method of learning that is not interesting, nor too rigid, and therefore required an effective learning activities.

In learning English, listening activities to do with methods of learning interest. In this case depends teachers teaching listening, listening learning whether or not delivered effectively. The activities that we can do such as:

1. Familiarize see western movies.

The purpose of the course to be achieved by using film as a medium of learning, is to make us familiar with the English language. If we want to improve listening skills in English, we can use the film by removing its subtitle. It is believed to make us familiar with the English language is the international language. Because language is believed to be controlled if the frequent practice. Confusion with the words that came out was the first sensation that we will face. There are two benefits when using film as a medium of learning, namely engineering and additional vocabulary pronunciation.

2. Familiarize hear tracks west

Listening to songs that use English as the lyrics will make learning English fun listening. By using the song as the media, we can learn the four aspects of learning at the same time listening. This approach is an effort to improve our skills in English listening, as well as to motivate students to improve their English listening.
Using songs as a medium of learning is done by listening to the following steps:

1. Choosing a song

One of the requirements in choosing songs to enhance listening is the selection of the song should be a clear pronunciation. Some opinions suggest that the selection of songs for beginners who want to learn listening, it is advisable to choose a melancholy song.
2. Listen to the song

In this activity can only be done is listen. This is to familiarize the ear to the pronunciation of English.
3. Scrutinize

Hearing is not the same as listening. Hearing in english hear while listening is listen. In this activity just need to bring a small note. Listen carefully to the song, then record the spoken words.
4. Match

The last activity to improve the ability of listening to the song is to match the original lyrics. Then interpret the lyrics as a whole. Noteworthy is the meaning of a word is the subject of the sentence context.

Conclusion

            The role of English as an international language has been unmatched by any other foreign languages​​. The status of English as an international language today, certainly not in spite of the fact, that the former England as a country is a superpower with vast colonies in the world. For that reason underlying the use of English in the world. Supported by the U.S., a country whose super power today, adding the rate the role of English as an international language.

          English is the international language taught in schools around the world. The use of English has increased making the language more deeply rooted in every society. There are four aspects of the English language, namely listening, speaking, writing, and reading. Each individual have difficulty levels vary, including difficulties in communication, difficulty understanding grammar, vocabulary or be minimal. And there are several methods that we can use to train the ability to listen, because listening is the basic ability to understand other aspects of the language in English with some training

By : CANTIKA YULI SUSILOWATI/ 12332105