writing part 1 The Problem in Listening Comprehension Introduction Listening is one of the most important skill that the students who learn foreign language. In case, English learning, listening can use to identify what the speaker say. Listening teaching, however, is forgetting many important aspect that impact in listening skill for students. Listening aspect includes stress, intonation, and vocabulary. Besides, Processes in listening comprehension: Intended meaning assigned to message; different from literal message, determination to commit information to short-term or long-term memory, Original words, phrases, and sentences are (largely) “pruned” and the message concept is retained. It can be difficult when the students had limited vocabulary. There are many difficulties that make many students have in listening comprehension. The problems in listening that usually students find are: phonological changes, accents, performance variable, colloquial language, rate of delivery and stress and intonation . These are matters that the teacher listening comprehension, especially, to solve and help their student to be better in their listening skill. Research has focused on identifying what the many factors that influence in listening comprehension and how these factors impact in product of listening comprehension. These factors are only emphasis on the cognitive aspect and only few touch the social aspect. Defining Listening Listening comprehension, according to, Brynes is “characterizes listening comprehension as a ‘highly complex problem solving activity’ that can be broken down into a set of distinct sub-skills” . Listening happens depend on related to the speaker and listener, what the topic, where they are, etc. Problem in Listening Comprehension Phonological change Phonological change usually happens based on the situation where the speaker is. The usually kind of the phonological change especially in English are: 1. Assimilation This happens when the speaker pronunciation influenced by closest of sound. For example, don’t you become donchoo. 2. Elision This happens when the speaker pronunciation eliminated the word which closes the next word. For example, want tea become wantea. 3. Intrusion This happens when the speaker pronunciation new sound between other sounds. Accent Languages in each country have different speech because of difference region that separates them. Accent sometimes is identity of people know where they come from.