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assignment entitled “Learning to listen”.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface.......................................................................................................................................... 1
Chapter I
Introduction
A. Background ............................................................................................................................. 3
B. Identifications of problem ....................................................................................................... 3
C. The objectives of problems .................................................................................................................. 3
Chapter II
Discussion
1.1 . Listening .............................................................................................................................. 4
1.2. Listening based to expert ...................................................................................................... 6
2.1. Vocabulary ............................................................................................................................ 7
2.2. Vocabulary based on expert .................................................................................................. 7
Chapter III
Conclusion and suggestion
A. Conclusion ..............................................................................................................................10
B. Suggestion ...............................................................................................................................11
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CHAPTER I
Introduction
A. Background
Listening is receiving language through the ears. Listening involves identifying the
sounds of speech and processing them into words and sentences. When we listen, we use our
ears to receive individual sounds (letters, stress, rhythm and pauses) and we use our brain to
convert these into messages that mean something to us. Listening is very different with hearing.
in listening we process the voice with our mind, but for hearing, we only hear that word.
In this Paper, we will discuss the basic of listening, that is Learning and vocabulary
basic. As we know, when we listen, we must know as much as vocabulary, because to be a good
listener, we must know and understand what is the speaker talking about.
B. Identifications of problem
1. What is Listening ?
2. What is Listening based on expert?
3. What is Vocabulary?
4. Why we need to learn Vocabulary as a basic for listening?
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CHAPTER II
Discussion
1.1. Listening
Listening is the language modality that is used most frequently. It is a vital component
of the oral communication, or the interactive process in which the individual takes the roles of
speaker and listener through a verbal and non verbal component. Listening with concentration
can be called active listening because we are not just passively allowing speech to enter our
ears, but instead are bringing as much of our listening capacity into the act as possible. Our ears
become hungry for the words they are listening to, and chew the words as finely as possible
before digesting them.
Simply having good hearing does not make one a good listener. In fact, many people
who have perfectly good hearing are not good listeners. Having good hearing does facilitate
one’s perception of sound; but good listeners don’t simply hear words—they focus on the
meaning. We communicate effectively with each other insofar as we share meaning. 1 Effective
listening implies that the listener understands what the speaker means. The difference between
hearing and listening can be stated this way: Hearing is the reception of sound, listen - ing is the
attachment of meaning to the sound. Hearing is passive, listening is active. Understanding the
difference between hearing and listening is important for listening effectively. The first step in
listening effectively is to recognize certain fallacies or false notions.
Listening involves a sender (a person, radio, television), a message, and a receiver (the
listener). Listeners often must process messages as they come, even if they are still processing
what they have just heard, without backtracking or looking ahead. In addition, listeners must
cope with the sender's choice of vocabulary, structure, and rate of delivery. The complexity of
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John.A.Kline, Listening Effectively, Alabama : Air university press, 1996
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the listening process is magnified in second language contexts, where the receiver also has
incomplete control of the language
After knowing what is listening, now we will learn what is listening based on the expert
of listening.
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4. (Feyten, 1991). Listening has emerged as an important component in the process
of second language acquisition.
5. (Wipf, 1984)Listening is an invisible mental process, making it difficult to
describe. Listeners must discriminate between sounds, understand vocabulary
and grammatical structures, interpret stress and intention, retain and interpret this
within the immediate as well as the larger socio-cultural context of the utterance.
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2.1.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary is one of English components or sub-skill that must be taught to the learners,
because vocabulary has the primary role for all languages. No matter how well the student
learns grammar, no matter how successfully the sounds of second language just can not happen
in any meaningful way (Schmitt and McCarthy, 2000:140). This statement shows us how
important vocabulary in communication. It is not only for English, but also for the other
languages all over the world. Communication happens if the speaker and listener understand
what they tell and they hear. In order to get meaningful communication, the knowledge about
the meaning of the word must be mastered and before master in the meaning of the word itself,
the vocabulary knowledge will be the first ability that must be mastered. The knowledge of it is
also really useful in helping students to master the four language skills in order to reach the
communicative competence.
2.2
The Definition of Vocabulary by Expert
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C. Webster Dictionary(1985:1073), vocabulary is define as a list or collection of words
usually alphabetically arranged and explained or lexicon, stock of words use in language
or by class ,individual, etc.
D. Roget (1980:1036), vocabulary is:
A. A list of words often defined or translated.
B. All the words of Language.
C. Specialized expression which are indigenous to a particular field, subject, trade
orsubculture.
Typically, students of English from countries where English rarely used outside the
school may head well but have had little experience in listening to English. If the students have
a very limited vocabulary, then vocabulary can be taught through English listening. According
to Hughs (2003:179), vocabulary supports other language skills such as listening, speaking,
reading, and writing, and it must be mastered when learning a foreign language. It means that
listening is one of the skills in English language which can be influenced by the mastery of
vocabulary. Additionally, expressive vocabulary knowledge and listening comprehension skills
were found to be independently related to word identification abilities (Wise, 2007:50). It
explains that the vocabulary has a special relationship with listening.
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identify those words or phrases, which have been isolated in the previous hearing. They also are
able to build their vocabulary quickly. Besides that, listening enriches their vocabulary because
by listening they can get new words and spelling. From the description above, it can be said that
more vocabulary people have, better they master the language.
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CHAPTER III
Conclusion and Suggestion
3.1. Conclusion
From this paper, we can learn that between listening and vocabulary have a big
correlation. Without vocabulary, we can’t listen clearly and we can’t understand what the
speaker said. And there will be misunderstanding between the speaker and the listener. Even,
when we are being a speaker, we cant talk. Vocabulary is very important since, without
vocabulary, we can’t speak and we can’t listen. vocabulary is one of the elements in language.
Among all the elements of language have interaction with others elements. Language
knowledge well can be known from vocabulary used.
3.2. Suggestion
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Reference
file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/245989918-The-Correlation-Between-Vocabulary-Mastery-and-
Listening-Achievement.pdf
https://youtu.be/u5yrKM08a9M
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