PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION ON DEVELOPING LISTENING TEST AT ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH YOGYAKARTA
Abstract
Developing listening test is compulsory to measure students listening
comprehension or practice their listening skill. Pre-service teachers at English
Education Department of UMY had a training in developing tests to develop their
competences to be an assessor for their future career. This research are aimed to
find types of questions used by the pre-service teachers at EED of UMY, the
obstacles that pre-service teachers of EED of UMY faced in developing listening
test and the solutions that they made to deal with the obstacle. To collect the data,
the researcher conducted the research qualitatively; an interview with 5 preservice
teachers at EED of UMY batch 2013 was conducted as well. The
interview was about 11-15 minutes for each participant. Based on the data, the
participants were used multiple choice, fill in the blank, true and false, and
matching question types. Moreover, the obstacles that pre-service teachers faced
are finding the materials, test text types, speed of speech, accent, noises, and
validity reliability. Besides, checking content guidelines, improving listening
material, editing audio recordings, and try out are the strategies that pre-service
teachers used to overcome the obstacles.