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Improving listening comprehension among Malay Preschool children using…
Improving listening comprehension among Malay Preschool children using digital stories
6 years old Malay pre-school children
Functional level of literacy
Excel in reading comprehension
Listenning comprehension
Listening comprehension and literacy
Stories
Tales
Websites
Websites for children can offer a range of opportunities to develop foreign language listening and proficiency in a playful and enjoyablr context if appropriately selected and organized (Van Scoter, Ellis & Railsback,2001)
Listening comprehension plays a main role in a second language teaching, especially with young learners(Grabielatos, 1995)
Positive academic outcomes
Research objectives
Computer -based technology used as an instructional tool
To find out if digital stories improve the childrens'listening comprehension
To varify whether there is a significant differance the nean scores
Listening materials have to be visual, interactive and reiterative
Research questions and hypotheses
The digital stories would improve the children listening comprehension skills
Do the digital stories improve the childrens' listening comprehension skills?
There is significant differance between the mean scores of experimental tests
Gains in listening skill and understanding seem to bring benefits to improve children's reading comprehension (Biemiller,2003; Sticht,2003)
The interactivity of internet-based stories may assist learning since children are activiely involved in decoding and understanding the story(Donato,1994)
The English Language Curriculum by Ministry of education of Malaysia(2001) aims make students communicatate using
Song
Games
Rhyme
Poems
Story
Childrens' literature
2digital BBC stories were used
created set of selected stories
content validity of the class were tested
children played active role
Croanbach alpha coefficient was used
they monitored individually
lexis and actions presented in the narration hd multi- sensory charecter
Vocabulary will be developed by using
verbal communication
propts
non- verbal communication
puppets
body language
objects from real World
facila expressions
posters
word cards
big books
charts
labels
signs
cartoons
A quasi-experimental analysis
Duration 6 weeks
30 minute English class once a week
was conducted at a primary school in Penang
50 paarticipatant took part in this research
two-groups were selected
control group
experimental group
Pre-test
placement test
listen and cicrle correct option regarding questions of animals and colours
research intervention
animals and numbers
collect initial data
Post-test
vocabulary
sound pattern
prosody
linguistic structure
proggressive understanding
Conclusion
there are significant differences between two groups
pedagogical practice promoted concentration
storytelling pace is too fast even for native speakers
References:
Donato,R(1994). Collective scaffolding in second language learning In J. P. Lantolf and G. Appel (Eds.), Vygotskian pproaches to second language (pp. 35-56). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Grabielatos, C. (1995). Two birds with one stone 2: Listening skills development using testing materials. Current Issues 6, pp. 15-19. Haddad, W. D. & Juric
Biemiller, A. (2003). Vocabulary: Needed if more children are to read well. Reading Psychology, 24, 323-335.
Ministry of Education of Malaysia (2001). Preschool curriculum. Kuala Lumpur: Pusat perkembangan kurikulum.