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Arono. (2014). Improving Students Listening Skill through Interactive Multimedia in Indonesia. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 5 (1), 63-69.


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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, animation, sound, and picture. Then, this media can be displayed by projector as the integrative media. From this, I conclude that the integrative media is a tool to support interactive media. We can say that to show the media for everyone in the class at the same time. The media should be created through some phases such as planning the design and content, producing and releasing the product to the public, reviewing the media, and reproducing it. The functions of media itself are related to the process of listening. The process of listening according to some experts is hearing, attention, perception or evaluation, and response or reacting. On the other words, it is comprehending, interpreting, and evaluating. The term of hearing was a process accepting the words or sentences, after that, we pay attention to the message through the words and sentences. The combination of hearing and paying attention to the message is comprehending and interpreting. In the end of listening, students likely to give a response or react the material to show how they evaluate what they listen. Those stages are used to develop integrative learning model. The role of media is to deliver the message in an interesting way and still follow the stages. It should give the clear information which is suitable for the student’s level and describe the message into the right picture. The message delivered in the right picture will be memorized longer since human brain receives the information 10% through audio and 40% through the picture.

Nonetheless, I think that the author didn’t explain what kind of interactive multimedia in this article, but he or she described video indirectly. So, I’m not sure about it. however, for my future classroom, I think teaching listening requires high creativity creating interesting media because sometimes the students often lose their focus or their interest to the material. I as the teacher should help them creating the mental picture about what they listen.

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