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Improving Listening Comprehension Malay Preschool Children Using Digital…
Improving Listening Comprehension Malay Preschool Children Using Digital Stories
Methodology
Research design
a quasi-experimental analysis
a primary school in Penang, Malaysia
four 30-minutes lessons per week
6 weeks
2 groups: experiential and control
Instrumentation
experiential group
2 digital stories in the BBC website
a teacher as a facilitator
children are more independant
Pre-test
Parts I & II
Post-test
Parts I & II
T-test
Parts I & II
Control group
stories chosen by the teacher
workbook lesson and teacher's instructions
pilot test
for preschool children similar to the target groups
Sampling
50 children (25 per class)
2 teachers - one per group
groups predetermined by the school
Litreture Review
Digital/Internet-based stories
involve children to decode and understand the story (Donato, 1994)
children progress at their own pace
listening skills improve children's reading comprehension (Biemiller, 2003; Sticht, 2003)
develop listening skills if selected appropriately
Underutilized computer-based technology (Cuban, 2001)
English Language Curriculum for the Malaysian Preschool
develop the enjoyment of the language
language play: stories, rhymes, poems, songs, games
imagine & recreate exprerience
Vocabulary development
familiar experience and things; children's literature
Language development
context
real world objects
pictures
puppets, etc
written language
word card
books
charts
lables, signs, posters
meaningful interection with others
verbal
non-verbal
body language
facial expression
eye contact
Introduction
Research Questions and Hypotheses
Do digital stories improve the children's listening comprehension skills?
Is there a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of experiensial and control groups
The digital stories would improve the children's listening comprehension skills.
There is a significant difference between the mean scores of experiential and control groups.
Research Objectives
to find out if digital stories improve the children's listening comprehension skills.
to verify whether there is a significant difference between the mean scores of experiential and control groups in their listening comprehension tests
Statement of Problem
not much research on how Internett-based technology contributes to improve children's listening comprehension (Haddad & Jurich, 2002)
Findings
Digital stories improve the children's listening comprehension skills;
The difference2 between teh two participating gruops were statistically significant (p<0.05) except for Part II
Conclusions & Discussions
Positive results
significant difference between the two groups
numerous exposure to the digital stories
Difficulties
access to the Internet
most Web materials are not created by experts
too fast storytelling pace
Recommendations
resources should be adapted and use a slower pace
more studies to determine the long-lasting effect and the effectiveness of multimedia and digital content
analysis of Internet-based content to design coherent syllabus
