THE CORRELATION BETWEEN COGNITIVE STRATEGIS AND STUDENT'S LISTENING COMPREHENSION OF THE ELEVENTHGRADE STUDENTS AT SMKN 1 KEDIRI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/2015
Author (Penulis)
Setya Afriawan
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri
Author Identity (NPM)
10.1.01.08.0245
Abstract
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN COGNITIVE STRATEGIES AND STUDENTS’
LISTENING COMPREHENSION OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMKN
1 KEDIRI IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2014 / 2015
Setya Afriawan
10.1.01.08.0245
FKIP – Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Setyaafriawan@gmail.com Khoiriyah, M.Pd. dan Sri Mulyati, M.Pd. UNIVERSITAS NUSANTARA PGRI KEDIRI
ABSTRACT
In University, listening stands as one of the important skills that has to be mastered. Therefore, listening is undoubtedly a difficult subject for second language learners. They must have learning strategy, especially cognitive strategy to solve their difficulties in listening. But most of them have not realized what learning strategies they are used in the learning process of listening. This research is conducted and aimed to know the cognitive strategies often used by eleventh grade students, to know the student's Listening Comprehension of the eleventh grade students, to know whether there is a significant correlation between cognitive strategies and listening comprehension in eleventh grade students of SMK Negeri 1 Kediri in academic year
2014/2015. The research design that is applied in this research is quantitative and the approach of this research is correlation quantitative research. The sample of this research is the XI TITL 1 class in eleventh grade students of SMK N 1 Kediri consisting of 31 students. To get the data, the writer used questionnaire to know how far students use cognitive strategy, and listening test is used to know the students' listening ability. The result showed that the students' listening comprehension in SMK N 1 Kediri is poor. It can be concluded that the use of cognitive strategies has no effect to the listening comprehension of the eleventh grade students in SMK N
1 Kediri. It is also supported by the result of the data analysis in this research that the score of
rxy is lower than rxy-table in significant 1% and 5%. In other words, there is no significant correlation between students’ cognitive strategy and students’ listening comprehension.
Keywords: Correlation, Cognitive Strategies and Listening Comprehension.