scholarly journals Using BBC Learning English Podcasts to develop university students’ listening skills

e-mentor ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 26-35
Author(s):  
Olena Davydenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Learning English

The emergence of podcasts in an English foreign language (EFL) setting is seen as a helpful aid to foreign language learning. Using podcasts might help improve language learning efficiency. This research addresses how podcasts can be an alternative means of improving English listening comprehension for university students. The study was carried out at Nizhyn Gogol State University, Ukraine, using quantitative and qualitative methods of analyzing data. To collect the data, research tools such as a questionnaire, initial and final testing, and observation were used. The procedure was introduced for a group of first-year students and implemented for six weeks. Special BBC Learning English podcast activities were designed and offered to the students. The main stages have been specified in the process of developing students’ listening skills. In the pre-listening stage, students do preparation activities to prepare for the podcast using their background knowledge. The while-listening stage is aimed at listening for gist, listening for details, making inferences, and summarizing. In the post-listening stage, the listeners are taken beyond the podcast content and set tasks which contribute to integrating other language skills. Samples of activities which correspond to these three stages are provided. A balanced approach to choosing top-down or bottom-up processing within the stages improves the process of forming competencies in listening of first-year students. Hence, based on the positive results of this study, BBC Learning English podcasts with meaningful, appropriate, and interesting activities attract the students’ attention, increase their motivation, and improve their listening comprehension.

scholarly journals University Students' Beliefs and Attitudes Regarding Foreign Language Learning in France

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Piquemal ◽  
Robert Renaud
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Personal Attitude ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

This study is based on a survey of 1,305 university students enrolled in English and other foreign-language classes across year levels in four major universities in France. It explores the factors that promote or hinder multilingualism, with special attention to the following questions: What are the beliefs and attitudes of students enrolled in various postsecondary institutions across France toward learning a foreign language? How do these beliefs and attitudes change as students progress from beginning first-year students to upper years? The results suggest that the reasons first-year students typically have for studying a foreign language have more to do with internal factors (e.g., personal attitude) than with external factoars (e.g., social value). Moreover, this trend becomes more pronounced with upper-year students whose motivation to learn a foreign language compared with that of first-year students is influenced less by perceived societal beliefs and more by intrinsic reasons.

scholarly journals TEACHING LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT A NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY: FACILITATION THROUGH INTERNALIZATION OF CONNECTED ENGLISH SPEECH FEATURES

2018 ◽  
pp. 183-189
Author(s):  
I. N. Kosheleva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Phonological Features

Listening is not only one of the most important language skills, which is necessary for everyday communication, but an integral part  of foreign language learning. It is evident that the students need an  effective training in building auditory skills. However, proper  attention is seldom paid to the process of listening to the English  speech, altering phoneme recognition in the stream of speech, which  often causes difficulties in audio-comprehension. The subject  of this research is facilitation of teaching listening comprehension to  the students of non-linguistic universities. The purpose of the article is to identify the core phonological features of coherent  English speech and provide the examples of activities aimed at their  recognition. The methodological framework of the conducted  research is represented by bottom-up approach to teaching listening  and the tenet that speech perception and comprehension by ear is a  process. Therefore, the ability to correctly decode phonemes, words,  phrases and infer meaning plays an utmost role. In thiscontext the students’ wrong answers should be analyzed, it contributes to determining the point of misunderstanding. It is  shown that making students aware of phonological features  of  coherent English speech helps them to overcome difficulties in  audiotext perception and thus enhances teaching listening  comprehension. The results of the research can be of interest to  both foreign language teachers and to the researchers dealing with  English phonetics learning. Finally, the conclusions are drawn that a  successful development of listening skills requires a combination of  the bottom-up and top-down approaches. This enables teaching staff  to create favorable conditions for acquisition of one of the most challenging language skills.

scholarly journals LISTENING AS A RECEPTIVE VIEW OF SPEECH ACTIVITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
E.V RUBTSOVA ◽  
◽  
N.V DEVDARIANI ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Pattern Matching ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Speech Activity ◽  
Mental Properties ◽  
Relationship Of

This article deals with the special fork of speech activity - listening (hearing). The focus is on the receptive nature of this component of learning a foreign language. Based on the methodology of studying the problem, in this study, listening is understood as the internal form of the human activities associated with many aspects of mental properties of the person. Noting the multidimensional nature of hearing, the authors emphasize the involvement in the processes of perceptual (perception), thinking (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, etc.) and mnemonic activity (the formation of certain images, the ability to learn and recognize them as the result of pattern matching in memory). Studying the direct relationship of listening comprehension with verbal communication within the communicative approach to foreign language learning, the authors argue the need for the development of listening skills, without which the process of communication in the language impossible. The formation of listening skills promotes thinking by using visual and sound images, helping to recreate a complete picture of what is happening. Based on my own pedagogical experience, the study authors believe it is necessary to pay attention to non-verbal supports in the process of communication and perception of information aurally much attention, such as gestures, facial expressions, touch and other, which are designed to reinforce auditory sensation, and to facilitate the process of perception and information processing.

scholarly journals Listening Comprehension as a Key Component towards the Success of Foreign Language Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
Evans KOKROKO ◽  
James Kwaku DUMENYAH
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Speech Communication ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Oral Speech

The objective of this article is to clarify the importance of using listening comprehension to facilitate the process of teaching and learning a foreign language. The approaches underlying the trends supporting listening comprehension teaching and learning, coupled with the literature review point to the development of listening skills as a sure way of smooth foreign language learning. The success of developing listening comprehension skills is hedged on involvement of the learner in well thought out activities by the teacher, their effort and practice, as well as the use of ICT. Researchers in the study exhibit components of oral speech communication which provides the basis for development of other speech aspects and cognitive development. Those findings suggest that oral speech communication is a prerequisite for language acquisition

scholarly journals Differences in Motivation to Learning English among Saudi University Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Ayman Sabry Daif-Allah ◽  
Fahad Hamad Aljumah
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
Saudi Male ◽  
Learning English

This paper analyzes and determines the various orientations of 247 Saudi male and female university students for learning English. The descriptive and correlational approaches were used to investigate the participants’ motivations. The researchers adapted questionnaires available from the literature to quantitatively collect data. The results show that university students are highly motivated to learning English and therefore, it suggests that motivation is an important variable that shapes learners' idea about foreign language learning. The results also show that students of different gender and majors had different perspectives about English learning. The conclusions, and recommendations of the present study provide platform for future investigations into EFL learners’ motivation in other areas of Saudi Arabia or in similar settings in Arabic speaking countries to find out differences in students' orientations.

scholarly journals ОРГАНІЗАЦІЯ САМОСТІЙНОЇ РОБОТИ СТУДЕНТІВ ЗАСОБАМИ MOODLE В ПРОЦЕСІ НАВЧАННЯ ІНОЗЕМНОЇ МОВИ

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Kateryna V. Rudnitska ◽  
Veronika V. Drozdova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
First Year ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Study Monitoring

The authors have analyzed the problem of students’ self-study organization at higher school on the basis of studying pedagogical, psychological and methodical literature, program-methodical documentation of higher educational institutions, experience of practical work. In accordance with the normative increase on students’ self-study load, there was a need to use Moodle system. It has been found out that the organization of students’ self-study by means of Moodle system in the process of foreign language learning has not been properly researched. To solve this problem, a new curriculum and the author’s special course «Professional language of an economist» for foreign language learning have been developed and implemented for the first-year students of economic specialties. The main advantages of the special course for organization of students’ self-study, monitoring and analysis of students’ activity in the process of foreign language learning have been determined. The effectiveness of organization of students’ self-study by means of Moodle system in the process of foreign language learning has been experimentally tested and proved.

scholarly journals Developing Students’ Cognition Culture for Successful Foreign Language Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01128
Author(s):  
Lyubov Pavlova ◽  
Yuliana Vtorushina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Culture Conditions ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Cognitive Component ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
The University

This paper presents results of the research aimed at determining essential aspects of the development of university students’ cognition culture as a factor of successful foreign language learning. The authors define cognition culture as a complex of capabilities and skills, enabling students to look for, analyze, process, organize and critically assess information in the text, considering its historical and cultural value background. The investigation proves that a student’s cognition culture is manifested in his/her knowledge of national mentality, language, and cultural picture of the world as well as in the student’s skills of search, procession and critical assessment of information, the skills of analysis, comparison, generalization, cognitive motivation and aspiration for constant improvement of foreign language skills. The research determines the contents of the cognitive component of foreign language learning and works out a complex of teaching techniques for developing students’ cognition culture. The results prove that the application of the complex of special teaching techniques ensures effective development of the university students’ cognition culture for successful foreign language learning. Thus, students’ cognitive culture conditions their social adaptation and academic mobility.

scholarly journals Foreign language learning anxiety: A comparison between high school and university students

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1584
Author(s):  
Gökhan Baş ◽  
Mehmet Özcan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Monthly Income ◽  
Learning Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
Language Learning Anxiety

This research aimed to identify the differences in foreign language learning (FLL) anxiety levels between high school and university students based on some variables such as gender, current educational status, parents’ (father and mother) educational status, and monthly income of families.  The survey model was adopted in the research.  The research included high school (n = 333) and university (n = 341) students from Nigde and Afyonkarahisar provinces. In the research, “Foreign Language Learning Anxiety Scale” (FLLAS) was used in order to collect data. For the analyses of the data, independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA were performed. The results of the research indicated that gender, fathers’ educational status and monthly income of family variables did not have a significant impact on foreign language anxiety levels of high school and university students. It was also found that students’ educational status as well as their mothers’ educational status variables influenced their FLL anxiety significantly.

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