THE LEVEL OF LISTENING ABILITY OF SELECTED TWELFTH GRADERS

Abstract

It is undeniable that listening English is a fundamental learning in English. This is supported by several journals that discuss listening skills, one of the crucial talents in improving English is listening. This is due to the fact that listening is how we comprehend and understand what others say and discuss when conversing. This study aims to determine the level of listening ability of the twelfth grade of high school using a film Frozen (2013) that has 5 participants as subjects. The method used in this study uses qualitative with several methods, namely interviews, observations, tests and documentation. The results of this study showed that students had poor grades in test I, most of which contained intonation, meaning of word, sentences and utterance. While in the results of the second test, students get good grades, most of the material in the second test contains students' understanding of dialogues and monologues in the film. The difficulties that students face are mostly about less familiar words and accents.

Keywords: Listening, Frozen (2013) Movie.