%0 Journal Article
%A 0813042053, Wirathama Hazera Putra
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%T IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION  THROUGH DRILL TECHNIQUE IN THE FIRST GRADE  STUDENTS OF SMPN 2 BANDAR LAMPUNG
%U http://digilib.unila.ac.id/16811/
%X This research was aimed at: 1) analyzing the improvement of the students’  listening comprehension through drill technique, 2) finding out the problems the  students face in learning micro skills of listening comprehension through drill  technique.  The data were obtained from the pre-test and post-test to analyze the improvement  of the students’ listening comprehension through drill technique, and also from  the observation and interview to find out the problems the students face in  learning micro skills of listening comprehension through drill technique.  The result showed that the students’ mean score of the pre-test was 52.2 and their  mean score of the post-test after being taught through drill technique was 78.5, in  which their gain score was 26.3. Specifically, drill technique improved the  students’ listening comprehension in all aspects of micro skill types of listening  comprehension, such as recognition intonation pattern, recognition sentence  pattern, recognition discourse marker, and getting the referential info. Moreover,  drill technique mostly improved the students’ listening comprehension in  recognizing intonation pattern, in which their ability in that aspect was 38 %  improved significantly. Besides that, in line with what had been observed during  the treatment, the problems the students faced in learning micro skills of listening  comprehension through drill technique could be divided into: a) Problems from  the listener, in example: understanding the difficult words/phrases, recognizing  phonetic symbols and intonation pattern, distinguishing sentence pattern and  discourse marker, and unable to keep up with the native speaker’s speed; b)  Problem from listening materials, in example some dialogues were long.  However, after practicing the dialogues more frequently through drill technique,  the students gradually started to comprehend the materials and were able to  ii  overcome those problems. Based on the results above, it could be concluded that:  1) drill technique could improve the students’ listening comprehension better and  significantly, especially in recognizing intonation pattern, 2) drill technique could  overcome the problems the students faced during the treatment of teaching  listening through drill technique.