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Improving Listening Comprehension among Malay Preschool Children Using…
Improving Listening Comprehension among Malay Preschool Children Using Digital Stories
Introduction
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The search of the study
The exploration of the ways of promotion second language learning
Through Internet-based technology such as digital stories
by Malay young English learners
Statement of the problem
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Majority of the research on the contribution of Internet-based technology
The use of this technology as an instructional tool for SLA
Concentrate on teenagers and adults
Access to this technology
Positive developmental and motivational effects
Children's second language learning (SLA)
Only a small number of the studies on the contribution of Internet-based technology
The contribution of this technology
To improve children's listening comprehension
Correlation of the use this technology in the classroom to positive academic outcomes (higher test scores)
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 the experimental and control groups in listening comprehension tests
Research Questions
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Do the digital stories improve the children's listening comprehension skills?
Is there a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental and control groups in their listening comprehension tests?
Methodology
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Research Design
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A primary school in suburban Penang, Malaysia
A quasi-experimental analysis
6 weeks
30-minute English lessons a week
Four sessions per week
Control group
Stories were told by their teacher
No Internet-based material was given
Experimental group
English lessons during the four weekly sessions
2 of the sessions
Children received the same instruction as control group
The other 2 sessions
They worked on a selected number of digital stories
SPSS program
To verify the effect of Information and Communication Technologies on children's listening comprehension
Levene Test
Homogeneity (p>0.05) and heterogeneity (p<0.05) variances
Sampling
50 pre-school children in a government-run school
Penang, Malaysia
The age of 6
Most of the Malaysian children officially start ESL at school
Instrumentation
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2 digital stories in the BBC website
Pre Test
Part I
5 items to test children's knowledge about animals and colours
Children were required to listen and circle the right option
Part II
5 items to test children's knowledge about numbers and animals
Children were required to listen and color the right option
Post Test
To test children's progressive understanding of the linguistic structure, vocabulary-sound patterns and prosody of the language
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