CHAPTER III Teaching listening skills through videos
3.1 Significance of the study
The importance of this study is developing English listening skills to students from advanced level by the teaching material: videos. This strategy can be applied for teaching and learning in the English Language development skill area of the Foreign Language Department from beginner to advanced levels. There are benefits for the English teacher, students, and the English curriculum.
The benefit for teachers is using properly, videos in English as a Foreign Language classroom. First of all, videos are a supplementary tool for teaching listening that creates a center of attention to students. Videos stimulate students English listening skills. This way the teacher is using a variety of strategies, methods and techniques in the classroom to extend the students' attention. Listening strategies are techniques or activities that contribute directly to the comprehension and recall of listening input.
Listening strategies can be classified by how the listener processes the input, techniques are procedures or skills for carrying out or completing specific tasks, these can be classroom devices or activities: a method is a set of procedures that describe how to teach a language and a skill is a learned ability to perform something
Lastly, an effective listening advanced English class will be characterized by the following feature: the materials should be authentic similar to real life, or students should be eager to know what they are listening for. In the future, English teachers can help the students develop listening skills by providing various kinds of materials and activities in classroom.
Definitions of Terms Video: Video in language learning may mean the use of popular films on video to provide content, and the use of smaller pieces of broadcast materials such as short documentaries and television advertisements. It can refer to professionally produced tapes specifically written and designed for classroom instruction, as well as the use of news broadcasts to provide content and to teach specific features of authentic language. The video that can be used in the language classroom may be bought, or recorded from television. They can be films, cartoons documentaries news, weather. Interviews, games show, advertisements or commercials. These materials can be used for general course, listening practice, business English and so on.
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