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Improving Listening Comprehension among Malay Preschool Children Using
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Improving Listening Comprehension among Malay Preschool Children Using
Digital Stories (Abidinetal, 2011)
Place: suburban school in Penang, Malaysia.
Despite enormous efforts from researchers, educators, and policymakers to promote reading for all children, many children fail to reach functional levels of literacy (Paris & Stahl, 2005).
real adaptation of the Internet-based resource books into the classroom has
not taken place yet, especially in Malaysia.
there is a need to conduct further research on the use of Internet-based content and
methodology in language learning settings.
- Main sources to improve listening skills
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approximately six-week long,
they were given a post-test
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3.Objectives
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To verify whether there is a significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental and
control groups in their listening comprehension tests.
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8.Findings
Levene test showed that there was homogeneity of variances between the control and
the experimental groups
Regarding the pre-test, both control and experimental groups
performed very similarly in Part I and Part II
Regarding the pre-test, both control and experimental groups
performed very similarly in Part I and Part II
Participants in the experimental group improved their listening
comprehension skills and outperformed those in the control group.
The simplicity of grammar, vocabulary and narrative structure were taken into
account to make the story predictable and to facilitate comprehension.
Listening
comprehension plays a main role in second language teaching, especially with young learners (Grabielatos, 1995).
The interactivity of Internet-based stories may assist learning since children are actively involved in decoding and understanding the story (Donato, 1994).
to investigate the effects of digital stories on the understanding of spoken English by a group of 6-year old Malay preschool children.
9.Conclusion
pedagogical practice of digital stories promoted concentration and
focused children's attention on the oral input received.
it is necessary
to continue analyzing the existing Internet-based content in order to design a coherent syllabus which may respond to young learners' needs
Grabielatos, C. (1995). Two birds with one stone 2: Listening skills development using testing materials. Current Issues 6, pp. 15-19.
Donato, R. (1994). Collective scaffolding in second language learning. In J. P. Lantolf and G. Appel (Eds.), Vygotskian approaches to second language learning (pp. 35-56). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation
Paris, S. & Stahl S. (2005). Children’s reading comprehension and assessment. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates