AN ANALYSIS OF LECTURER’S DIFFICULTIES IN ONLINE 56 TEACHING LISTENING SKILLS

Abstract

Difficulties in teaching listening skills are often encountered by lecturers in an online classes. The difficulties faced, those difficulties affect the concentration of lecturers in teaching and make it difficult for students to understand the material. To solve those problems, the lecturers try to find the best solution to overcome the difficulties they faced. This study is expected to identify the lecturer’s difficulties in online listening classes and to provide solutions to cope with those difficulties in order to increase students’ understanding in listening skill and the lecturer’s comfort in teaching. In this study, the researcher is using a descriptive qualitative method, and for the data collection technique, the researcher is using interviews and questionnaires. The participant of this study is the lecturers in the second and fourth semesters at a private school in Jakarta. The researcher has analyzed six difficulties in teaching listening skills which are often faced by lecturers and it is found that all those six problems are proven to be experienced by the lecturers in the online class. These six difficulties are dealing with students' ignorance of new vocabulary, looking for the listening videos that do not have an open transcript, determining the listening audio which is not too easy and not too hard either, dealing with the limited interaction, being annoyed of the noise from outside and facing the students who do not want to be open to the lecturer.