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Improving Listening Comprehension among Malay Preschool Children Using …
Improving Listening Comprehension among Malay Preschool Children Using Digital Stories
Introduction
Statement of the problem
Paris & Stahl, 2005 functional levels of literacy
Grabielatos, 1995 plays a main role in second language teaching, especially in young learners
Van Scoter, Ellis & Railsback, 2001 Websites for children should be appropriately selected and organized
Zevenbergenn & Whitehurst, 2003 Tales and stories are effective
Haddad & Jurich, 2002 Internet-based technology contributes to improve children's listening comprehension
Salaberry, 2001; Zhao, 1999 the research- teens and adults
Melmed, 1995; Schacer, 1999 higher test scores
Research Objectives
To verify whether there is a significant differences
To find out if digital stories improve the children’s listening comprehension skills
Research Questions and Hypotheses
hypothesis
would improve
significant differences
questions?
significant differences?
improve or not?
Literature Review
English Language Curriculum for the Malaysian Preschools
Donato, 1994
Biemiller, 2003; Sticht, 2003
Cuban, 2001
Dudeney, 2000; Warschauer, Shetzer & Meloni, 2000
Conclusions and Discussions
the pedagogical practice of digital stories promoted concentration and focused children's attention on the oral input received
improved their listening comprehension skills
Web materials on the Internet have not been created by language and pedagogy experts
Findings
Better listening comprehension skills
Methodology
A quasi-experimental analysis
control
traitional
children received the same kind of instruction as the control group
experimental
devoted to work on a selected number of digital stories.
SPSS program
four 30-minute English lessons a week, 6 week