Applying Active Listening Skill For Students' Listening Assessment by Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach

Abstract

Listening is one of language competences as a set of communication and interpersonal skills by listening ideas, integrate information, and evaluate what we hear. Student’s listening ability is also assessed by educator. Among tests applied commonly to students, active listening skill is a good choice. It was firstly used by therapist to paraphrase his client’s matter for improving other’s understandably feeling. In fact, it is applicable for checking listening skill by paraphrasing what a listener hears. It requires interpretation for allowing student to independently make sense of listened information. This way results drawing conclusion or stating expansion. By systemic functional linguistics approach, the results can be explored. They are explored through clauses. The analysis can assess students’ ability towards their interpretations. In this descriptive qualitative research, the writer assesses his students taking listening for hotel subject by performing active listening skill. This skill will be analogous with his students’ language skill to recheck, ensure, and convey information while encountering their guests in hotel. The data collection is done by observation while assessing his students’ active listening skill through paraphrasing information from the audios. They are the data source supported with transcription which is for analysis later. Lexicogrammar is the primary data. Purposive sampling is done by taking students’ clauses with mood structure, transitivity, theme-rheme, and separating minor clauses. This active listening skill research results that most students express declarative clauses together with monologue mode, but their qualities can be tracked from the abilities of showing exchanges to know taking-giving impacts. Their perceptions are not only propositions, but also drawing proposals. In processes, there are some additional processes newly added by their active listening skill. They are also able to draw conclusion resulted from interpreting multiple processes. For thematic structures, there are shift and development on the theme types. Active listening skill is recommended to comprehend students’ skill fully. In addition, it makes listening assessment become precious and valuable because of considering multiple dimensions which are ideationally, interpersonally, and textually.