scholarly journals Veracities of teaching listening in Nepal

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 178-190
Author(s):  
Nanibabu Ghimire
Keyword(s):  
Work Group ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Community Schools ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Communication Games ◽  
Monitoring Strategies ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Teaching Of Listening ◽  
Pair Work

This study explores realities, problems and their solutions of teaching listening in English in secondary level education in Nepal. As it is a narrative inquiry, I chose three English teachers and six students from three different secondary level community schools of Kamalamai Municipality of Sindhuli district, Nepal as the participants of the study using purposive sampling procedure. The findings demonstrated that the listening skill is the neglected skill in our school education. The teachers do not pay much more attention to teach this skill in our community school by thinking teaching listening is not important for examination purpose. There is scarcity of audio-visual devices, the classroom is not techno-friendly, teachers are not dedicated and trained, monitoring strategies of concerned authority is not effective for teaching listening. Recommended solutions include - the students should be proactive and the school administration has to be responsible for making availability of listening equipment and materials. Similarly, the teachers should use various interactive and cooperative activities such as role-play, pair work, group work and communication games using authentic materials such as English films, favourite songs, funny short stories, some exciting programmes on radio, TV or the internet for the effectual teaching of listening.

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF TEACHING LISTENING USING AUTHENTIC ECOLOGICAL MATERIALS IN THE SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 505-508
Author(s):  
Luiza R. Zakirova ◽  
Marianna Y. Yashina ◽  
Anna S. Shingareva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Senior Stage ◽  
Teaching Of Listening

Purposes: This article discusses the problem of listening comprehension as an important and integral part of everyday communication. Despite its impact on the process of language learning, the listening skill was for a long time relegated to a marginal place in foreign language curricula. Methodology: The authors describe a great educational value of authentic materials used in a foreign language classroom to motivate, develop and increase listening skills at the senior stage of teaching. They found it necessary to admit that with the advent of communicative language teaching and the focus on proficiency, the teaching of listening started to increase. Obvious attention is paid to the practical use of available Internet resources that deal with ecological problems which are acute and need the urgent solution in contemporary society. Results: The authors made an attempt to prove that listening should be fully integrated into the foreign language curriculum and given considerable "prime time" in-class activities and homework preparation. In addition, the methodological recommendations on the organization of the development of listening skills to improve the overall process of communication are presented.

scholarly journals FACTORS INFLUENCING TEACHERS’ BELIEFS ON THE USE OF AUTHENTIC MATERIALS TO TEACH LISTENING

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Berlinda Mandasari
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Interactive Model ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
The Subject

This research describes factors that influence teachers’ beliefs on the use of authentic materials to teach listening. This issue points out on what factors that shape their beliefs on authentic materials which are considered as good media to teach listening and support the learning and teaching practice. Two English teachers who constantly use authentic materials for listening skill are as the subject of this research. Observation, questionnaire and interview are administered to gain the data. The data are analyzed by using interactive model proposed by Miles and Huberman. The result shows that factors influencing teachers’ beliefs are: a) challenging points of authentic materials; b) easy access to authentic materials; c) the availability of the materials; d) students’ interest; e) worskop/training and personal experience. The result implies that some factors on using authentic materials have shaped teachers’ beliefs.

scholarly journals Listening Skill At Tertiary Level: A Reflection

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Minhajul Abedin ◽  
Saiful Hassan Khan Majlish ◽  
Shorna Akter
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Survey Result ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Real Scenario

This study focuses on the real scenario of listening skill of learners at the tertiary level in private universities in our country and through this attempt we have tried to find out the reasons of poor listening skills of the learners. At secondary and higher secondary level, where Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is in practice, writing and speaking are given maximum importance. Since learners' listening skill is not assessed like other skills, it remains unattended through out their academic career. The scenario of poor listening skill of the learners continues with the same negligence even at the tertiary level. Giving importance to the development of this skill, the study has been done throughout questionnaire survey both from students' and teachers' point of view. The survey result has been analyzed and some suggestions are given regarding the matter. Key words: Listening Skill, Tertiary level, Private UniversitiesDOI: 10.3329/dujl.v2i3.4144 The Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics: Vol.2 No.3 February, 2009 Page: 69-90

scholarly journals Learner-adaptive partial and synchronized captions for L2 listening skill development

2019 ◽  
pp. 291-296
Author(s):  
Maryam Sadat Mirzaei ◽  
Kourosh Meshgi
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Learner Satisfaction ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Individual Learner ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
L2 Listening ◽  
Word Selection

Many language learners have difficulty practicing listening skills using authentic materials, and thus use captions to map text with speech, and they benefit from reading along while listening to comprehend content. However, many learners over-rely on reading the text and many have difficulty in dividing their attention to the multimodal input. We have proposed a captioning tool, Partial and Synchronized Captions (PSC), which detects the useful words to be shown in the caption for addressing learners’ listening difficulties. To handle individual learner demands, PSC should adapt its word selection criteria. This study proposes an Adaptive PSC (APSC), which improves its word selection and retrains itself on-the-fly by applying learner feedback on the generated caption to provide individualized and effective assistance that satisfies the learners’ requirements. Preliminary results revealed that the system was relatively successful to adapt itself to the demand of the L2 learner, which raised learner satisfaction on the resultant captions.

scholarly journals English as a Medium of Instruction: Students’ Discernment in Nepal

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 146-160
Author(s):  
Nani Babu Ghimire
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Community Schools ◽  
Medium Of Instruction ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Depth Data ◽  
University Level ◽  
Mind Set

English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has become a global phenomenon; and several countries of the world have adopted EMI in their classrooms from primary to university level including Nepal. This study seeks to explore the perception, practice and challenges of the students allied to using EMI for learning at secondary level in the community schools of Nepal. It looks at students’ attitude on EMI in terms of their upbeat mind-set, complicatedness and identity construction. A critical qualitative case study method was adopted for research and three students of an EMI-adopted community school of Sindhuli district were selected as the participants of study following the purposive sampling procedure. Semi-structured interview was conducted to elicit in-depth data from the participants. The raw data were transcribed and coded to develop the main themes maintaining the principles of relevancy. The findings reveal that the students have deeply rooted beliefs in learning through English because it secures their future by assisting them to get a job in the country or abroad. They have difficulties in speaking English and learning new vocabulary even though they are learning through English; but their teachers facilitate them with the Nepali equivalents. They feel proud of being the students of EMI schools because there is a superior credit of their school in the district and they are also supposed to be better qualified students in their locality.

scholarly journals English as a Medium of Instruction in Community School: Boon or Bane, a Case Study of Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Ramesh Prasad Adhikary
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Community Schools ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Community School ◽  
Medium Of Instruction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The Government

The main aim of this research paper is focused on the present debatable issue of Nepalese academia whether the use of English as a medium of instruction in community school is judicious or not. In this research, both the primary and secondary data are used to complete this research. The data are gathered through the questionnaire and interview. For the Primary sources of data twenty-five teachers were selected from the community schools by using purposive sampling procedure. From this study, it is justified that the use of English as a medium of instruction in community schools is beneficial. The use of English helps the progress of the students rather it hampers in their learning activities. The social assumption of Nepalese people that English as medium of instruction as in the private boarding school could make the student excellent has been proved correct. The government should provide all training, courses and infrastructure for the community school for instruction in English medium.

scholarly journals Enhancing Listening Skill for Secondary Level Learners through Virtual Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (S1-Dec2020) ◽  
pp. 49-51
Author(s):  
R Vidhiya ◽  
V David Arputha Raj
Keyword(s):  
High Standard ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Online Coaching ◽  
Secondary Learners

Education has become the important aspect of human society. Technology plays a major role in all fields and education is not an exception. The demand for high standard of education is steadily increasing. The systems and methods of teaching change from time to time. In recent years, virtual learning has become effectively employed for better learning. In India, virtual learning is employed at the tertiary level e.g. IIT. But it is not used in the secondary level. Virtual learning renders to high standard of learning and acquisition. It offers diversity of sources and exposures. Virtual learning offers online coaching and videos. Students tend to enjoy learning in the new environment. Virtual learning provides experts lectures and space for better sources. Virtual learning offers a better learning for students and in turn crops a better learning. This paper deals with various aspects of virtual learning in developing listening skills of secondary learners.

scholarly journals USING AUTHENTIC LISTENING MATERIALS IN EFL CLASSROOM: STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS IN INDONESIAN CONTEXT

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Refai Refai
Keyword(s):  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
English Language ◽  
Real Life ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Students Attitudes

Instructing listening comprehension to EFL students need good plannings. Authentic listening materials as a strategic teaching media are best utilized by English instructors to facilitate the EFL students’ listening comprehension in classrooms and language laboratory. Applying authentic listening materials as teaching media in listening practice activites are challenged to bridge EFL students and not only enhancing their listening skill but also improving and developing their knowledge of the real life, culture, and social affairs of English native speakers.The source of authentic listening materials applied in the subject class are mostly taken from youtube.com. A popular open source website which provide online videos. The aim of the study was to find out EFL students’ attitudes and perceptions when and after using the authentic videos in an EFL listening class. The participants of the study were the second semester EFL students of English Language Teaching department in Universitas Muhammadiyah Metro Indonesia. The data were gathered from a questionnaire and open interviews. It is found out that most of EFL students who were instructed by the authentic videos show positive attitudes and have good perceptions in utilizing youtube videos as one of the alternative authentic materials in comprehending English utterances.

scholarly journals PENGAJARAN MENYIMAK BAHASA INGGRIS: MASALAH DAN SOLUSINYA

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Aryuliva Adnan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
School Facilities ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
National Examination ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
The Family

For along time language teachers tend to ignore teaching listening. Among the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) that are recognized as the keys to ‘knowing’ the language,   listening is probably the least important to be taught. Actually speaking and listening are always interrelated. However listening is the most underdeveloped skill. In Indonesia the teachers tend to ignore to teach this skill by skipping it eventhough it is clearly stated in curriculum. Many reasons are mentioned by the teachers for not teaching listening, such as lack of teaching material, lack of school facilities, the speakers in the recorded material speak too fast, the students do not understand the vocabularies and the sentences used by the speakers. Basically, they realized that listening cannot be separated from other language skills like speaking, reading and writing. Listening is important since students may receive much of their information of their school through listening to instructors and to another. Listening has been regarded as the most frequently used language skills in the classroom. Besides, listening skill is important in the workplace, the family and the community. Furthermore nowadays listening skill is included in national examination for the level of Senior High School. The teachers then have no reasons to ignore and skip teaching listening, for they can vary their teaching materials, tasks, techniques and activities. Kinds of authentic materials can be taken from many recources, and kinds of activities to support teaching listening in the classroom can be done as well. Key words: teaching listening, listening materials, listening activities

Enhancing Listening Fluency through Well-beaten Path Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 592
Author(s):  
Saeed Ghaniabady ◽  
Hamid Reza Hashemi
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Listening Test ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Teaching Of Listening ◽  
Primary Channel

It is axiomatic that listening skill is the primary channel to the process of language acquisition. To foster this skill, a wide array of approaches and methods has been offered, one of which is the often-neglected well-beaten approach. The current study is an attempt to provide glimpse into the possible effect of employing well-beaten path approach on developing learners’ listening fluency. To achieve such intent, 60 EFL learners were randomly selected and assigned to two groups. Before assigning them, they sat for a pre-test to ensure their homogeneity. For one group the well-beaten path approach was applied in that the same listening test was repeated three times and for the other group the test was run only once. The findings signified that using a well-beaten approach noticeably leads learners to outperform their listening fluency. The study results might significantly contribute to the more optimal teaching of listening skill.

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