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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


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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-research stated that the listening skills was seldom be emphasized. The students likely to be static and focus on materials given by the academics developing them. The author involved the international graduate research students participating in listening study since listening is regarded as an challenge in daily communication. All the graduate students in the researcher education program over the period 2011 and 2012. Those participants are asked to design their own exercise which is suitable with their needs through online software and website. Authentic materials were created and uploaded into the website or software, then it automatically made a blank column. Those materials were possibly adapted from public broadcasters that have the real situation of listening activity.  It is also divided into several tasks such as listening for detail, word segmentation, prediction of discourse structures and Australian accent.

I think independent listening skill is difficult to be developed, especially, if I intend to imply it for high school students in Indonesia. The students are not quite familiar with this learning way except for a high-standard school such as international school, private school, and favorite local school, since most of them use technology only for daily interaction for each other. However, I’m not able to deny learning activity through website because times always move on and we should create the variety of learning method. Indonesia can be left behind with the other countries, if the teacher do not want to follow the trend learning era.

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