PRACTICE 3 | ADVANCE WRITING CLASS

##Ahmad Rizaldi Zahir##

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1.      Topic         : Improving listening skill

2.      Purpose     : To differentiate the effect of using music and video in teaching listening

3.      Main Idea  : There is a lot of way or method to sharpen students listening skill that used by teacher, such as using a music or video to help students improve their listening skill

4.      Essai          :

Improving Students Listening Skill Using Music and Video

There is a lot of way or method to sharpen students listening skill that used by teacher, such as using a music or video to help students improve their listening skill. Those method are very useful rather than just giving an explanation, beucase it can attract the student and make the want to learn more. By conducting a powerfull method, it may make the class activity become more effectively. Also by using those method, students will not feel bored while learning activity. Because listening skill is not easy to learn, which is in listening skill students need to be focus and need more practice to gain a good listening skill. As Tri (2017) stated:

“Listening is one of the indispensable abilities in language. As a kind of input, listening is the foundation of speaking and writing. If a student does not receive effective listening input, He or She may not perform well in writing and speaking since the two output abilities are more difficult.”

In using a video to help students improve their skill, teacher usually using a short video who taken from youtube, because there is a lot of teaching material that you can find in youtube. According to Ayu (2016), Youtube is a legal website where teacher can take a video material from there. By using Youtube, students can pay more attention while in learning activity, because it more attractive when students can get a better perception by watching a video. At the end, the effect of using video from youtube can make the classroom activity become more effectivrly either for the teacher or the students.

Music or song can improve listening skill as a supporting item for listening. Listening to a song also  has a lot of benefit, such as learn more new vocabularies, sharpen your pronunciation skill, and learn about listening more effectively (Tri, 2017). Teacher sometime plays a song as a method of teaching listening in order to make students more interest to the learning activity. To make students more enjoy to do the learning activity, teacher should know a kind of music that students like. In nowadays, there is a lot of platform that can use as a music player either using a smartphone or even a laptop. For example teacher can use Spotify platform on smartphone to search what kind of top chart or a list of a popular song at that time.

Using a music or video to improving students listening skill is a good method, because both of them can attract the student to be more active while in learning activities. Teacher can choose to use what kind of method to make the class becom effectively by knowing the students first, whether they like listening a music or watching a video.

References

Ayu, L. P. (2016). YouTube Videos in Teaching Listening: The benefits in Experts’ Views. Banda Aceh: Syiah Kuala University.

Listiyaningsih, T. (2017). The Influence of Listening English Song. Surakarta: IAIN Surakarta.