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Reinders, H., & Cho, M.Y. (2010). Extensive Listening Practice and Input Enhancement Using Mobile Phones: Encouraging Out-of-Class Learning with Mobile Phones. The Electronic Journal for English as a Second Language, 14 (2), 1-7. Retrieved from http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/ The use of handphone is familiar for people around the world. It is not only used by adults but kids also have been known about the use of handphone. Even some studies reveal that language learners in some Asia countries enjoy the learning process through their handphone because they can learn it anytime they want it. Besides, the size of mobile phone is not too big so it is easy to bring everywhere. It also engages situated learning meaning as the learning can happen when the information is connected to the learners. For instance, the learners go to the market with their mother to purchase some goods and then they are able to learn about the vocabulary related to the market while doing another activity. ...

Citation: Shiri, Saeed. (2015). The Application of Podcasting as a Motivational Strategy to Iranian EFL Learners of English: A View toward Listening Comprehension. Australian International Academic Centre, 6(3), 155-165. I have reviewed some journal article about extensive listening using podcast. Now, I would like to review the application of podcasting as motivational strategy for EFL students. Motivation is often regarded as the main key to make the students achieve the objectives.  According to Williams & Burden (1997), the students need motivation to provide major drive to begin language learning later on the motivating force to continue the long and lengthy process of language learning. Acquiring language takes long time so that the students need to be motivated enough to follow the process. One of the strongest motivational strategies is the use of new technologies including audio visual (Madrid, 2012). In this case, podcasting can be one of the effective educat...

Citation: Alshakhi, Dalal. (2016). Attitude toward Enhancing Extensive Listening through Podcast Supplementary Pack . Canadian Center of Science and Education, 9(7), 32-47. The outcomes of learning listening are not often well defined. So, the students just listen to the provided recording without achieving the goals of listening. Various listening activities still fail to be obtained in the real life communication. The teacher usually did not provide them enough comprehensible input. Actually, the Students required being autonomous learners, information evaluators, observers, and critical thinkers in this era. Acquiring listening skill is not able to be done by only listening to teachers’ talk or class instructions. The teacher should engage extensive listening and the role of technology to improve it. Using textbooks is not the only way to teach listening. In fact, the students often listen various of audio from cassette or recording from the teacher, but they still can’t ma...

Citation: Shiri, Saeed. (2015). The Application of Podcasting as a Motivational Strategy to Iranian EFL Learners of English: A View toward Listening Comprehension. Australian International Academic Centre, 6(3), 155-165. source: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9QbV-yUMAA7W-A.jpg In this occasion, I will review journal article related to motivation in acquiring the listening skill. Motivation is regarded to be a prominent aspect of psychology and language education. This is dealing with the students willing to keep continue their learning journey since there are several problems in the learning process. To obtain certain skill, the students should be able to pass all of the learning phases. They may be surrender in the middle of the learning process or lazy to follow the activity without their strong willing. Then, listening is one of challenging skill in learning language because the students are demanded to listen to the target language which may be unfamiliar to them. Therefo...

Citation: Samawiyah, Zuhrotun. (2016). Phonetic Symbols through Audiolingual Method to Improve the Students’ Listening Skill. Dinamika Ilmu, Vol. 16, No.1 pp. 35-46 Listening is the first phase that a baby does in their first language acquisition phase.  It is the activity when ones know about certain words. In learning language, we don’t only study reading or writing, but it is important to learn oral communications. Before acquiring speaking skill, learners commonly learn how to obtain spoken information.  The process of communication engages the speaker willing to deliver their idea and the listener intentionally and actively obtain the meaning of the message. In this case, listener’s understanding is measured by knowing how well their understanding. In this article, the authors clearly explain what listening is. She also wrote some steps while listening and mentioned about self-monitoring to improve it. However, I disagree with the point that stated that we sho...

Citation: Saitakham, Kiattichai. (2012). Enhancing English Listening Skills through Websites Praticing: A Study of Thai EFL University Students. 47(11), 50-53. Listening is regarded as one of important skills in learning language. However, the students still feel frustrated and helpless against listening (Yang, 2005). Pierce (1998) said that listening as in interactive, not passive process that the students needed to reply much effort and practice. The students should involve actively perceiving and constructing from stream of sound. The listeners also need to have sufficient knowledge of the language. Besides, listening is often applied together with the other skills of speaking, reading and writing. It helps the students to obtain good speaking habits as a result of the spoken English they have got and helps them to improve their pronunciation.  In this research, the writer used websites as a media for learning listening since the use of internet is familiar for th...

Citation: T. Zacharias, Nugrahenny. (2012). EFL Students' Understanding of Their Multilingual English Identities . Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, vol. 9(2), pp. 223-244 In globalization era, English has been a bridge to facilitate some people from different countries to communicate with each other since they have a different language. Even in Europe itself, they also have their local language such as Italian, German, Greek, Irish and so on. The existence of English changes them to become a multi-language user. However, Indonesia has a lot of local language in every region so that Indonesian decide to have another language, Bahasa Indonesia, to unite their communication way. Nowadays, most of Indonesia are not able to speak their local language since they live in the place with the other different ethnic groups gathered. Furthermore, some of them never use their local language since they were born. The community who they lived with does not support them t...

Arono. (2014). Improving Students Listening Skill through Interactive Multimedia in Indonesia. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 5 (1), 63-69. source: http://combiboilersleeds.com/images/watching/watching-3.jpg In Indonesia, listening skill is not regarded as one of the important skill. The teacher usually only concern about reading for preparing university examination. The most used media in teaching listening is audio without a picture. It is seldom to find the variation media for teaching skill. However, the combination of audio and picture can generate interesting learning media. It helps the teacher increasing the student’s motivation to study and decreasing learning anxiety. In addition, it helps the teacher to connect the learning material with the real world. I’d like to review the journal that explores about the interactive multimedia implied for teaching listening.  The author means the interactive multimedia as the media which consist of text, anim...

Citation : Wesely, M. Pamela. (2012).  Cross-Cultural Understanding in Immersion Students: A Mixed Method Study . L2 Journal, 4(2), pp 189-213 Cross-cultural understanding has been a prominent issue for someone who intends to learning foreign language. It provides knowledge about certain culture or the other way to communicate with the members of the target culture besides using their language such as knowing their habit in daily life, what kind of celebrations they have, what they may eat or not, or even the body languages which have negative meaning. In United States, there are several regions which is lived by people from two different culture such as Spanish-American or French American. The cultural sensitivity is an noteworthy item to have a good communication between those cultures. Thus, there is an immersion which is concerned on acquiring language and cultural sensitivity. In this article, the writer try to find out whether the examination of L2 learning motivation of...

Citation: Picard, Michelle. (2016). Developing Independent Listening Skills for English as an Additional Language Students . International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Vol. 28 No. 1, pp. 52-65 source: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8x2sqiXgAAszKU.jpg English is not only learnt by the students of English literature or English language teaching department. The graduate students from the other departments require English language as the communication tools in laboratories, supervision meetings, at conference, at public lectures and even with research participants. To enter an academic English environment, English as an Additional Language (EAL) is prominent to support them in English-speaking areas. However, in this article, most of EAL students studying outside of North America or the United Kingdom merely familiar with Standard North American English (SAE) and Received pronunciation or BBC English (British Accents) in the popular media. The pre...

Citation : M.G Watt, Helen. (2012). Attribution and Motivation: A Cultural Study among Indonesian University Students . International Journal of Higher Education. Vol. I No. 02, pp  118-129. Students' motivation is an important issue in learning process. If the students are not quite motivated, the classroom situation probably will be boring and it affects the students' outcomes. There are some factors that influence the students' motivation besides teaching method or the students' interest about the lesson. The students' character is not only one cause which makes them lose their motivation, but the external factor such as environment also can be the reason. So, it is better for teacher to know what kind of things that might influence students' motivation. In this article, the writer investigated whether cultural factors and dimensions of students' attributions for their success and failure, motivational goals, self-efficacy, intelligence beliefs, and...

Citation : Akdeniz. (2014). Critical Reading in EFL in High School Context . International Journal of Language Akademi. Vol. II Issue. III, pp 133-156. When i was at senior high school, i feel that most of students in my class were interested in reading a text. They tended to read what is being asked by our teacher and merely understood it as what it means to say or without deep analysis. There were no comments or critics about the text, although they could tell what is going on the text. The classroom atmosphere was too passive and make all of us bored. So that, i try to find article about critical reading to wider my knowledge about how to be a critical reader or what is critical reading. This article comes from the research of senior high school students in Turkish. According to this article, critical reading is related to critical discourse analysis, critical literacy, and critical language awareness. Discourse is seen as reflecting and reinforcing social reality. Meanwhile. c...

Citation :  Öz ϋ or ҫ un, Fatma. (2013). The Importance of Body Language in Intercultural Communications. EUL Journal of Social Sciences. Vol. IV Issuee II, pp 70-81. People can be trapped in serious problem when misinterpreting one's body movements and gestures. Body movements contribute to non-verbal communication. The performer intends to express something through movements. Every region and country has different culture, since different places have different culture. It means that some body movements or gestures can be considered as the action of respect in certain place, but it also can be interpreted as offensive or disrespectful action for the other people. Body language is a means of communication which includes body movements of the head, neck, hands, arm, feet, or other parts of the body to reflect expressions. Those things are used to show one’s emotion and to support the verbal communication. This article said that the first impression of one’s talk is 60% eye con...

Citation : Masikem. (2016). The Implementation of Cooperative Learning Model Talking Chips and Quick on the Draw to Enhance Motivation and Social Studies Learning Outcome. IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education. Vol. 6 Issue 3, pp 33-39. Encouraging the students' motivation and learning outcomes in social studies is one of noteworthy issue in teaching and learning process. Students who have low motivation tend to not enjoy the class activity. It can be seen from their face expression and their behavior in the class. They are looked like sleepy, and they choose to keep silent during the activity. Even, there are no any opinions or feedback to the lesson. Sometimes, the students also fall asleep because of the low interest to the class activity. On the other hand, the teacher and some students who have high ability often dominate the class, so that it pushes back the low motivation students to have less interest. However, when the break time is coming, the students wi...