ADVANCING LISTENING COMPREHENSION AUDIO CLIPS IN DEVELOPING LISTENING

THROUGH MOVIES COMPREHENSION SKILLS IN MALAYSIAN

PRIMARY ESL CLASSROOMS
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Comprehension Through Movies. Procedia –Social and Developing Listening Comprehension Skills in Malaysian
Behavioral Sciences 191(2015) 169-173 Primary ESL Classrooms. Proceeding of ICECRS, 1 (2016) 421-
Introduction- author/
430
date of published, title,
The author conducted a study to improve listening skills
how the author
through movies between selected students from private school. In Malaysia, listening skills are also often neglected due to the
introduced the topic
highly examination-oriented education system.

This study to examine teaching listening comprehension is one

Problem statement-
of the most vital and difficult tasks for any foreign language Listening skills has been an under-emphasised skill in many
why researcher wanted
teacher because there are no rules as in grammar teaching. English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms until recent
to do the research
decades.

1) (UNICEF u Srbiji, 2005 – 2009), young people in (1) Ghaderpanahi (2012) conducted a study to investigate the
Serbia lack interest in any social issue outside their effectiveness in developing learners’s listening comprehension
peer circles, tend to reject any authority, show no skills using authentic aural materials via audio tape, where
awareness or enthusiasm towards social goals of students showed significant improvement in their listening
general significance” (p.658) this study also aimed at ability.
investigating students interest into some cultural issues
Lit review- examples
and their reflection on language learning. (2) Mohamadkhani, Farohi&Farokhi (2013), high school student
of lit used to support
in Iran shows positive effects in improving listening
the study
2) (Katchen, 1996b), These studiesconcerning the use of comprehension by using audio files.
subtitles applied rather quantitative method in carrying
out the research. They examined the end product
rather than the process
Quantitative-25 item questionnaire
The five-point Likert scale
Qualitative-Oral Interview
sample of respondents/
Students Learning English as Foreign Language, from
secondary school and university
The results is most students agreed that had positive effect on
their listening skills and some of them not sure if watching
movies are wasting time or not also not satisfied their needs.
In the first article the author has write each perception clearly
while in article 2 the authors show the data that has been
collected however the authors only describe about the data
show in the table(because different methodologies use).
Watching movies enhanced listening skills and gained more
than vocabulary, understood more foreign culture, felt relaxed
and had fun while learning in class and will help student
research conclude/ any
achieve their goals in future.
Movie of foreign language is effective way to for students
improve their listening ability and get better insight in English
Culture
Chinese National-type primary school (SJKC) consisting 36
pupils from year 4 student and year 3.
Methodologies-
(i) Pilot testing for Year 3 students.
(ii) Listening task (listen and circle, listen and fill, listen and
background, types of
sequences the stories and listen and write ‘True’ or ‘False’.
methods used etc
(iii) Interview session for teacher by using English and Mandarin
(1) Teachers’ perceptions on the usability of Audio Clips
 Useful in capturing learners’ attention
 Convenient and easy to use
 Challenging to low proficient learners
 Overall development of listening comprehension skills
Findings- What are
the results
(2) Learners’ Perceptions on the Use of Audio Clips
 Fun and interesting
 More concentration and engagement
 Challenging in audio speed
 Overall development of listening comprehension skills
This studies receive positive feedback from the teachers and
student in rural school about the use of audio clips. Teachers
Conclusion- how the
play an important roles to expose their student with listening in
multimedia rather than having a test on paper along. Teachers in
recommendation?
21 st century should help build learners confidence level and
reduce their anxiety to learn English
Listening activities in ESL Classrooms can be approached in
Implication of the order to develop leaners’ comprehension skills. Audio clips can
study be developed into module and also uploaded to mobile phone so
that learners can download or listen it online anytime anywhere.