ACKNOWLEDGMENT
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious the Most Merciful. All praises be to
Allah, who has created the heaven and the world, the cherisher and sustainer of the
world; God who has been giving His blessing and mercy to the writer to complete the
thesis entitled " Students difficulties in differing lexical items between British and
American English third year students in SMAN 3 Lhokseumawe
Peace and solution may upon out prophet Muhammad (peace be open Him)
who has been promoted as messenger and has accepted the first revelation in this month
to usher mankind to the straight path of Allah. He is the best creation and the best
messenger and for His household, His companions, and His faithful follower who strive
in Allah religion of Islam.
On this occasion with great humility, I would like to thank you to all of those
who have given me help and guidance so that this thesis can be finished. Completion of
writing of this thesis, the author would like to thank to:
1. Dr. H. Hafifuddin, M. Ag as Chief of STAIN Malikussaleh.
2. Sofyan Arianto, S. Ag, M.Pd as the Head of Tarbiyah Department.
3. My best gratitude to Drs. M.Nazar, M.Hum as my main supervisor in completing
this thesis through the guidance and direction as well as the encouragement that are
very useful and helpful for the preparation and writing of this thesis.
4. Nuraini, S.Pd.I M.TESOL as the Co. Supervisor, for all the help and support in
completing this thesis.
5. All lecturers in English Study Program, thanks for the teaching during all this
four years.
6. Thanks to the Headmaster, Vice Headmaster, all the administration staffs of
SMAN 3 Lhokseumawe, for Miss Henny as the English teacher in there that
gave me support and opportunity to diract her class in order to conduct the
research and for II class of SMAN 3 Lhokseumawe and the third year students
for all your cooperation and help for me.
7. The biggest thanks especially to my lovely mom Nurjaniah as the best mom ever
in this world who always pray, encouraging, giving love and compassion, giving
material I need, working hard, always trying to do the best, to accompany me the
day by day, support me all the time and given a smile and happiness in my life
poand my lovely dad Jhoni Yusuf that gave me many support and advices. I can
survive and keep in spirit to face everything until today because of them.
8. My sister Yani Novia, great thanks to you guys for the support through giving
me spirit. My dear aunty that inspired me as well all my families from father and
mother and all the preceding families thank you for everything you have given
me.
9. Thanks to my greatest as well as close friends especially for, Joelkarnain,
Miftahul Jannah, Nazlia, Erna Vita who always accompany, gave support, help
and always together in any conditions for four years until now . Wonderful thank
for all my greatest friends in Unit 1 and all the students of English Study
Program of Tarbiyah Department of 2010 that I can not mention their names one
by one. Love you all.
10. Final words, the author say thank you so much indeed for all for those who I can
not mentions your names here. Hopefully this thesis can be useful for us and
become the input for the parties in need.
The perfection only His one Allah The Most Merciful. Critical and suggetion are
always needed by the writer. May Allah blesses us forever.
Sincerely yours,
Lhokseumawe, January 12th, 2014
The Writer
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.........................................................................................i
CONTENTS................................................................................................................iv
LIST OF TABLES......................................................................................................vi
LIST OF APPENDIXES............................................................................................vii
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LIST OF FIGURES....................................................................................................viii
ABSTRACT................................................................................................................ix
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
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Background of the Study.......................................................................1
Idenfication of the Problem....................................................................3
Problem of the Study..............................................................................4
Objective of The Study..........................................................................4
Scope and of the Study...........................................................................4
Significance of the study........................................................................5
Operational Definition...........................................................................6
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
A. Listening Comprehension..................................................................8
a. The Definition of Listening Comprehension..................................8
b. The Importance of Listening Comprehension................................9
c. The Process of Listening Comprehension......................................10
d. Types of Listening Comprehension................................................12
e. The Roles of Teacher in Listening Comprehension........................15
B. The Dialect...........................................................................................17
a. Definition of Dialect.......................................................................17
b. Kinds of Dialects in English...........................................................18
a. American Dialect.....................................................................18
a. The Variation of American Dialect...................................19
b. The Standard American Dialect.......................................20
b. British Dialect..........................................................................23
a. The Features of Standard British Dialect.............................23
C. The Difficulties of Students in Listening Comprehension...............25
CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Research Design....................................................................................27
B. Research Setting and Subject................................................................28
C. Research Procedure...............................................................................29
D. Data Collection Technique....................................................................29
E. Research Instruments............................................................................32
F. Data Analysis Technique.......................................................................35
CHAPTER FOUR: DATA ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. Data Analysis........................................................................................37
B. Research Findings.................................................................................54
CHAPTER FIVE: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion..........................................................................................................60
B. Suggestion ..........................................................................................................61
REFERENCES
APPENDIXES
CURRICULUM VITAE
LIST OF TABLES
Table 2.1 The Spelling of British English.......................................................................14
Table 2.2 The Spelling of American English..................................................................15
LIST OF APPENDIXES
I.
II.
An Appointment Letter of Writing Thesis
The Recommendation Letter for Doing Research from STAIN Malikussaleh
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
Lhokseumawe
The confirmation Letter of Doing Research from SMAN 3 Lhokseumawe
The Observation Checklist
The Interview Guide
Thesis Consultation List
Curriculum Vitae
LIST OF FIGURES
I.
Figure 3.1 Flow Model by Miles and Huberman.............................................35
ABSTRACT
This thesis is entitled An Analysis of Difficulties Faced by Second Year
Students at MAS Ulumuddin Islamic Boarding School Uteunkot in Learning
Listening Comprehension Using American Dialect (A Case Study). Listening is one
of the important skill in order to master English, because the students needed to grasp
the meaning and understand what they had heard. Listening comprehension recording
usually used native speaker or a native dialect which one of the dialect used in it was
American dialect speech. Because of this American dialect, the students felt some
difficulties in learning listening comprehension. Based on the background above, the
purposes of this research were in order to find out kinds of difficulties and causes of
such kind of difficulties faced by second year students at MAS Ulumuddin Islamic
Boarding School Uteunkot in learning Listening Comprehension using American
dialect. The design applied in this research was qualitative data approach in type of case
study. Meanwhile, the techniques of data collection were observation, documentation
and inteview. The technique in analyzing data of this research was Miles and
Hubermans model, which consisted of data collection, data display and conclusion
verification. The result of this research in learning listening comprehension of English
subject was the students often faced some difficulties, such as they were lacking in
recognizing some vocabulary pronunciation in listening to American native dialect and
grasping the information in listening comprehension using American dialect. The cause
of the students difficulties in learning listening comprehension using American dialect
were the students unfamiliarity with the spoken words from native speaker of American
dialect and unsufficient lesson that the students got from teacher or school in learning
listening comprehension especially using American dialect.
