Abstract Name : Tiya Akmalia Student No. : 1406102020030 Department/Program : English Education/Undergraduate Title : A STUDY ON FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS’ CHALLENGES IN LISTENING ( A Descriptive Qualitative Study of Eleventh Grade Students at SMAN 1 Calang) Keywords: Listening, Listening Comprehension, Factors on Listening Challenges This research is aimed to find out factors and the dominant factor affecting students’ challenges in listening comprehension as perceived by students at SMAN 1 Calang. This is a descriptive qualitative study. The sample of this research is selected by using purposive sampling. There are 75 of eleventh-grade students who participated in this research. Questionnaire and interview are designed as research instruments. The questionnaire consists of 30 items grouped into 5 categories; students’ listening comprehension challenges related to factors attributed to the content and linguistics features of the listening text, factors attributed to the speaker, factors attributed to the listener, and factors attributed to the physical setting. Moreover, the interview consists of three questions asking about students’ opinion about listening comprehension, challenges they faced in listening comprehension activity, and factors that cause those challenges. The result indicates the listening text, the speaker, the listener, and the physical setting are the main sources of students’ listening comprehension challenges. The dominant factor affecting students’ challenges in listening comprehension is factor attributed to the physical setting; the noise from environmental surroundings, with the percentage 89.6%.