Students’ Perception of Listening Material in Extensive Listening

Extensive listening takes an essential role in improving students’ listening skill. Extensive listening provides or promote students’ comprehension and enjoyment in class activity or listening practices. The success of extensive listening is depended on having easy the access of right materials. The present study examines on students’ perception of listening material in extensive listening. The present study only focuses on the materials are designed for some meeting in extensive listening class. In this regard, the material is meant to provide students with L2 listening proficiency. Allowing the students exploring YouTube channel is destined to have proper and pleasure material. In order to know the suitability and inclination of the material, descriptive qualitative research is conducted. This study undertakes interview to students who have participated in extensive listening class. The research findings reveal that the students’ perception on listening material are: 1) listening material motivates and engage students in listening skill, 2) students are very enthusiasm in discussing material of their own choice, and 3) extensive listening material is appropriate for listening practices. Because the material in extensive listening can expand their knowledge about the topic that they have chosen, enhance their word recognition in speech, and explores students’ ability regarding normal speech rate

EXTENSIVE LISTENING AND VIEWING IN ELT

Inspired by the success and informed by the principles of the Extensive Reading (ER) approach, Extensive Listening (EL) and Viewing have started to gain the attention of both L2 researchers and practitioners. The purpose of this paper is to examine the theoretical and research base of EL and the extent to which it is similar to or different from ER, discuss its language learning benefits for L2 students in different learning contexts, and explore different ways EL can be productively implemented in the classroom. Practical suggestions on how to source for freely available EL materials on the Internet and how these can be pedagogically used to enhance language proficiency are also offered. We believe that EL, when systematically implemented, can not only enhance students’ listening skills but also have a positive influence on the students’ overall language development

Podcasts: Improving Students’ Extensive Listening Skills

Podcasts is one of the technologies that can be used as an effective media to teach students’ listening skill, especially extensive listening. This research aims to know the effectiveness of using podcasts application in teaching extensive listening. The method in this study used quantitative research. The design of this research was pre-experimental one group pre-test and post-test design. It involved the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 2 Bangkalan as the subject of the research. In this research, the data were obtained toward the results of listening tests. The research was started by giving pre-test, treatments, and post-test to experimental group. The data of the tests were analyzed by using Paired Sample T-Test. The results showed the significant difference between pre-test and post-test, It indicate that the value of significance (Sig. 2-tailed) is 0.002 lower than 0.05. The results of the statistical hypothesis testing showed that the P-value lower than α (0.002<0.05), it means that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. It can be concluded that podcasts application is effective and brilliant media that can be suggested to be used on teaching listening

EAP Students’ Perceptions of Extensive Listening

Compared to other language skills, listening is a language skill that is often ignored and forgotten in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classes. Thus, there should be more room for teaching listening in EAP classes. Extensive listening (EL) could be one alternative that English teachers can do to give more room for teaching listening. This descriptive study investigated 19 EAP students' perceptions of an EL program. Research data showed that most students have positive perceptions of EL. EL provides a fun but meaningful activity for students. Most of the students agree that EL can improve their listening fluency and vocabulary and expose them to various English accents. In addition, they state that EL helps them become more confident to talk to other people in English and they want to do EL in the future although nobody asks them. Therefore, EL is a promising program to be implemented in EAP classes

The Study Of EFL Students' Extensive Listening Activities At University Of Islam Malang

Abstract: Listening is a basic language skill that is important in receiving oral messages to carry out communication with others more effectively. However, mastering listening especially in the EFL context requires a lot of practice, therefore language learners need to carry out extensive listening practice outside of class activities. Extensive listening can be defined as listening for pleasure that allows learners to receive both comprehensive and enjoyable input. Due to this reason, the researcher is interested in studying EFL students’ extensive listening activities at the university. This study was carried out using descriptive qualitative research methods through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews as an instrument. The questionnaire is used to find 5 suitable participants for the interview from the students of the English department at the University of Islam Malang. The data for this research was collected online through the use of WhatsApp voice notes and video calls. The result of the interview is analyzed using qualitative analysis for more detailed data about extensive listening activities. The result showed that all students have a medium to a high level of perception towards both aspects of extensive listening such as enjoyment and benefit and give positive responses towards six kinds of extensive listening material such as English songs, movies, podcasts, audio, news, and speech. The result also indicated that extensive listening has many benefits, such as providing an enjoyable learning experience and environment, flexibility to be used anywhere anytime, and flexibility to choose material based on learning purpose and needs. Moreover, extensive listening also benefits language skills such as vocabulary, pronunciation, retention, comprehension, authentic material, and more importantly improvement in listening skills. Keywords: Listening Skill, Extensive Listening Activitie

TEACHING EXTENSIVE LISTENING DEVELOPING RECOUNT PARAGRAPH WRITING

This study aimed to facilitate students in an integrated learning approach to meet the purpose of teaching and learning. This listening–writing integrated  teaching data was a survey research designe, to identify  the intention, preference and benefit of students. The study aimed also to identify the case of theoritical proposition and the field practice. The data was taken from 58 English education study program students of  4th semest, those who were in the treatment of the teaching approach. Students’ responses to the questionnaires was in order to answer 2 research questions: what are students intentions, preferencec, and the benefits, and other suggestions of students toward the teaching approach. The data of research provided in approaching of Likert’s scale in the renge of 1 (strongly agree) to 5 (strongly disagree). However the questionnaires were designed more in positive view points towards the implementation rather than in negativesites. The questionnaire data was analysed using descriptive statistical  operaion to see the average number of students’ responses and the frequency toward each of three points. By data analysis, the result shows that, 30 student (51,7%) strongly agree, 25 students (43,1% agree) 2 student 3,4% neutral, 1 student (1,7%) disagree to the intention. There were also 20 students ) 34,5% strongly agree, 33 (56% agree), 5 (8,6% neutral and none disagree for preferences, while, 12 (20,7% strongly agree, 41 students (70,7%) agree, 5 students (8,6%) neutral and none dis/or strongly agree with the benefit. Even in a quite strong data, but there were also great number of studsent complain in their hand writing note data. The complains are in the cases that (a) writing is difficult so, it should not be in parallel with listening, (b) writng created boringness, and their proportion of changing this (integrated) approach. From the two data, the possible conclussion is that there was benefit for the integrated listening-writing but a fully and detail explanation should have than become the consern on the  awarenes of studen

THE USE OF GOOGLE SITES IN EXTENSIVE LISTENING CLASSROOM: STUDENTS’ VOICES

Extensive Listening (EL) is a recent study whose development is sparked by Extensive Reading (ER). However, not many studies have been conducted on the implementation of Extensive Listening in the classroom using digital tools provided on the internet such as Google Sites. This study aims to examine students’ perceptions of the use of Google Sites in extensive listening classes. It was conducted using a qualitative design by involving 18 second-year students at a higher education level. The students’ classroom reflections and the semi-structured style of the interview were included as the research instruments. The results showed that most of the students believed that Google Sites is useful to enhance their creativity and motivate them to be actively involved in extensive listening activities

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION IN LEARNING EXTENSIVE LISTENING BY USING CARTOON MOVIES

Extensive listening is a way to practice listening skill thoroughly. Listening to various recordings, videos, and interviews on the same topic will help to get context in a real situation, and will help to learn more vocabulary. The objective of this research was to find out students’ perceptions in learning extensive listening by using cartoon movies. This study used a qualitative method. The research was done at SMK Trisakti Jaya Bandar Lampung for the 10th grade students (N=38). Data gathering was done by conducting observation, questionnaire and interview. The result showed that they agree learning English through extensive listening by using cartoon movies as the listening materials help them a lot to develop their listening skill. Based on the observations, questionnaires and interviews, it can be concluded that most of the students think that it is very helpful, and faster for them in learning English with extensive listening technique. Most students thought that learning extensive listening by using cartoon movies can be carried out in the learning process