Activities of Teaching Listening at Junior High Schools in Batang Kapas Pesisir Selatan

The teaching process of listening skill at Junior High Schools in Batang Kapas has some problems. Students still find difficulties and often get failure in listening. Teachers also have less serious attention to the teaching of listening. They are not certain how to teach it. These phenomena are related to the process of teaching listening in the class. The aim of this research is to find out the activities of teaching listening used by the teachers at pre-listening stage, while-listening stage and post-listening stage. The source of data in this research was the English teachers who taught English at Junior High Schools in Batang Kapas Pesisir Selatan. This research was classified into descriptive research. It describes some activities of teaching listening used by the English teachers in the three stages of teaching listening. As instruments, the researcher used questionnaire, interview and observation. The findings of this research showed that at pre listening stage the teachers commonly used the activities of looking at picture, reading through questions (to be answered while listening), informal teacher talk and class discussion, and previewing the language which will be heard in the listening text. At while listening stage, the teachers used the activities of matching pictures with what is heard or expressions with the response or situations given, completing table, grid/form/chart, then text completion/fill in the missing words of short text or dialogue and seeking specific items of information by answering the question given. At post listening stage the teachers used the activities of practicing pronunciation of words, role-play/simulation by practicing/acting out the dialogue, and true-false exercise/answering multiple choice questions. In this case, the teachers should pay attention to teaching listening. They also needed to learn about the variation of activities used in the process of teaching listening.