DICTATION
AS A
TESTING
DEVICE
OF LISTENING:
ANALYSIS
OF STUDENTS’ ERROR
(The Case of the Seventh Grade Students of MTsM 5
Al-Fajar Kapas
in the Academic Year 2011/2012
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Learning
English is very important for students. Why
is English important? The answer is obvious.
English has become
an international language. Because of that in Indonesia English is taught
beginning in the elementary school
in order that the students are familiar with English and can use and communicate
in English well.
There are many ways to know the students’ proficiency in English. One of them
is by
using
dictation. Using
dictation as a
testing
device of
listening
is effective
since dictation
can check the students’ proficiency
of English
spelling through their listening skill. We realize
that English
as a
foreign language
is a
difficult subject for Indonesian students to learn, because the
language
has a lot of rules which are different from
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian).
For example, pronunciation of most English words are not spelled the way they
are pronounced, while in
Indonesian
language the students
will never find
any difficulty in pronouncing
or writing down
Indonesian words because it correspondences between sounds
(phonic) and
letters
(graphic
symbols). The grammatical rules,
such as
adding
an –s
ending
to pluralize
a noun of English words
never occur
in Indonesian grammar.
Such differences will
make the Indonesian students unable
to comprehend
easily
the language being
learned.
They have to be
trained both in written and oral exercise.
Dictation
as a
testing device of listening is effective
since
the
teacher begins to realize the
weaknesses of the students in comprehending the language as well as the
weakness of the teaching method. By giving the test,
the teacher will get the
data by classifying
which of the problems
are more serious than the others
to overcome.
From the
results
of the test,
the
teacher
will be able to
collect the
common mistakes made by the students so that he can provide a remedial course
in the next teaching learning process.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing
the Topic
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