The Use of Contextual Video to Improve Students' Listening Ability

Hai guys ! 

Well, today I will tell you about the gap between the first journal that I have reviewed before “The Use of Songs in Teaching Students’ Listening Ability” and the second journal that I will review later “The Use of Contextual Video to Improve Students’ Listening Ability”. So what are the similarities and differences between both of them. Let’s discuss below !

The first, the similarities from both of them such as they have the same skill that is Listening skill. They also have the same purpose that is to improve students’ listening ability. Moreover, the researcher are from the same colleague. The last similarity is the sample of the research are the second grade of Junior High School.

The second is the differences from both of them. The first journal is used the songs to find out their ability in listening comprehension and the second is used the contextual video to find out the effectiveness in listening comprehension. So the conclusion, the gap between the two journals are only in the method.

In addition, now, I will start to review the second journal. The title is “The Use of Contextual Video to Improve Students’ Listening Ability”. Here, I just want to review some of the parts in the journal. Those are introduction, literature review and the last is methodology. And from rest of the parts, I will share next week in another chapter.

Introduction

The researcher said that the teachers nowadays should have an attractive way to take students’ interest and encourage students’ participation in learning process. Because one of the problems here is about the students’ attention that can be distracted easily. So that, the audio visual method is recommended to be used and it is more effective than the other types of media for listening. In audio visual, the students will use the two of their multi sensory that is sound and sight at the same time when they are doing listening practice.

Literature Review

In this part, the researcher explain about the teaching approach in listening and the benefit of contextual video. In teaching approach in listening, the researcher said that there are two major of approaches. Those are bottom up and top down. each of them has several objectives to assess in listening. However, it depends on the teacher. They can decide what kind of approaches are appropriate by thinking about the kind of listening skill they want to teach. In addition, the researcher also gives the explanation in the benefit of contextual video. The use of contextual video may give lots of advantages in learning a foreign language. There are a lot of benefits that mentioned by the scientist but the conclusion here is video or film associates with relaxation. Students have to be provided by good viewing and listening task, so that they may give their full attention to what they are hearing and seeing. Students can watch a huge range of film clips or short video on the internet at sites such as You Tube.

Methodology

The researcher takes two classes to applied the pre test and post test by implementing the contextual video to find the effectiveness in listening. Pre test is used to both groups to find out the students’ initial listening ability, whereas post-test were given to both groups to measure whether there is a difference between students’ listening score. Also the researcher use questioner to find out the students responses toward the use of contextual video for listening practice. Furthermore, to find out the effectiveness of contextual video in listening practice paired t-test was applied. If the probability value is smaller than the sig. value at 0.05 ( p<0.05), it means contextual video was effective for listening practice.

Thank you 😊 and see you on my next review next week! 👌