LISTENING COMPREHENSION DIFFICULTIES IN TOEFL FACED BY THE STUDENTS’ OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF MAKASSAR

Abstract

The objective of this research were to find out the students’ difficulties in listening section of TOEFL and the factors influence students difficulties in listening section of TOEFL faced by the students of English Department at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. The method of this research was a qualitative research method. The subject of this research consisted of 10 students at the seventh semester students of English Education Department. This research used snowball sampling technique. The instrument of this research was interview and recorder, consisted of 10 questions. There were some steps in collecting data, they were transcribing, classifying and concluding/interpreting. The result of the research showed that there were three difficulties faced by the students of English Department, namely the first was the difficulties in listening native speaker pronunciation, accent, and dialect. The second was the difficulties in concentration, learning style and lack of interest that have by the listeners (the students itself). The third was the difficulties in content that related with grammar and unfamiliar vocabularies, used by the native speaker in the topic that they were talking about. Mostly the difficulties the students faced were native speaker and content. And the factor influence difficulties were native speaker.