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Improving Listening Comprehension among Malay Preschool Children Using…
Improving Listening Comprehension among Malay Preschool Children Using Digital Stories
Statement of Problem
There is not much research on how Internet-based technology contributes to improve children's listening comprehension (Haddad & Jurich, 2002).
Research Objectives
This study attempted to examine the effects that digital stories have in improving the understanding of spoken English by six-year-old Malay pre-school children.
Research Questions and Hypotheses
Literature Review
English Language Curriculum for the Malaysian Preschools
The English Language Curriculum by Ministry of Education of Malaysia (2001) aims at enabling preschool children to actively communicate with others in their immediate environment and develop an enjoyment of the language through the use of stories, rhymes, poems, songs and games.
Methodology
Research Design
A quasi-experimental analysis was carried out at a primary school located in suburban Penang, Malaysia for 6 weeks.
Sampling
50 children participated in this research project. They were all the pre-school children in a government-run school in Penang, Malaysia.
Instrumentation
For this study, 2 digital stories in the BBC website were used. Children listened to the story and could move on at their own pace.
Pre-test
A pre-test was designed to collect initial data on children’s knowledge previous to any research intervention and to check that all participants had similar levels of English.
Post-test
A post-test was also designed to test children's progressive understanding of the linguistic structure, vocabulary, sound patterns and prosody of the language.
Findings
In order to compare the listening comprehension of the two groups, a T-test for independent samples was applied. Results obtained through the Levene test showed that there was homogeneity of variances between the control and the experimental groups (F= 0.241; p= 0.626) in the beginning.