Lecturers’ strategies: the use of media and material in teaching listening

This research focused on investigated and identify the lecturers’ strategies in teaching listening and lecturers’ strategies in solving the problems of media and material. The difficulties in listening was a challenge for English lecturers to provided and identify the appropriate strategies. The lecturers need to have effective strategies to overcome the problems that often occurred in listening laboratory cause of the equipment sometimes did not work properly or difficult to adjust material with the students’ ability. the questionnaires and interview were distributed to English Language lecturers who teach listening in UIN Ar-Raniry. From the finding, there were several strategies that mostly applied by lecturers in teaching listening such as: cognitive strategy, affective strategy, social strategy and metacognitive strategy. The lecturers found several problems related to media and material. They solved it by brought their own media, found another class which has completed facilities and asked students to performs in the class. To solved the problem of material they searched for suitable material on the internet, did various tricks to made the website could be accessed for free and played the video or audio repeatedly until students catch the information of the material.