An Analysis of the Students Difficulties in Studying Listening (A Case Study at the Fifth Semester in English Departement at STAIN Zawiyah Cot Kala Langsa)

Listening is an important skill for students of a second language(L2) to master as part of learning to effectively communicate in that language. Listening is the natural precursor to speaking: the early stages of language development in a person’s language (and in naturalistic acquisition of other languages) are dependent on listening. Difficulties are something that is not easy to do deal with a difficult situation. Listening difficulties are defined as the internal and external factor that might interrupt text understanding and real-life processing problems directly related to cognitive procedures that take place at various stages of listening . The researcher uses questionnaire as the instruments to collect data.