picture and sound which can present language comprehensively
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. Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing,
transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion. From the descriptive above, the author defines descriptive video as
several storage formats for moving pictures that contain description of people, place or historical building. Briefly, also define as the videos that contain
description things. As multimedia technology video becomes more accessible to teachers and
learners of other languages, its potential as a tool to enhance listening, hopefully becomes new strategy in teaching listening. Video allows integration
of text, graphics, audio, and motion video in a range of combinations. According to Carla Meskill “video is widely considered more powerful, more
salient, and more comprehensible than other media for second and foreign language students”.
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In line with that Brooks said “multimedia systems with video under
learner control are also preferred other instructional activities”.
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In short, multimedia input such as video as an authentic material apparently motivates
learners and engages their attention to aural input.
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Stempleski, Susan and Tomalin, Barryy,Video In Action Recipes For Using Video In Language Teaching,Sydney: Prentice Hal,1990,p.3
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Carla Meskill,Listening Skills Development Through Multimedia,New York:University at Albany,1995,P.184
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Brooks et.al. in Carla Meskill, Listening Skill Development Through Multimedia,New York:University at Albany,1995p.185
C. Descriptive Video
1. Nature of Descriptive Video
Descriptive video is the video which is used to describe something, someone or place, one of the characteristic of descriptive video is the narrator
who describes what is happening on the screen. From the definition above it can be concluded that descriptive video is the video which contain description
of something, someone or place which the narrator is main characteristic of descriptive video who distinguish with others kind of video. The function of
descriptive video is to provide viewer a deep information of something, someone or place.
D. Teaching Listening Using Video
Today listening is considered as the importance material in foreign language classroom. There are several reasons for this growth, emphasizing the role of
comprehensible input, second language acquisition research has given a major concern to listening. As Rost 1994, pp 141-142 point out, listening is vital in the
language classroom because it provides input for learner. Without understanding input at the right level, any learning simply cannot begin. Listening is thus
fundamental to speaking.
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Today there are many ways in teaching language, one of them is teaching listening by using video. Video have become more and more popular in language
teaching for decades. All skills, such as speaking, listening, reading and writing
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Jack C. Richard and Willy A. Remandya, Methodology In Language Teaching An Anthology Of Current Practice, New York:Cambridge University Press,2002.p239
can be instructed with videos. Videos are not only used for entertainment, but they also can provide a great approach for language teaching and learning. The
availability of video materials for teaching listening is high, the choice of videos is the key which can make videos useful or useless in a lesson plan. In line with that
Susan Stempleski and Barry Tomalin argued that video is a combination of moving pictures and sound that can present language more comprehensively than
any other teaching medium. Most video materials show people with objects in a setting particularly if it is
a real setting, when learners watch the video programs; they are exercising their listening skills. With video the students have the additional clues the visuals give
them while they watch and listen. Therefore, teaching listening by using authentic material such as video can reduce these difficulties because usually visual and
audio are integrated each other to make language understandable. So that, teaching listening using video could be new variation way in learning listening.
E. Advantages of Using Video in Learning Listening
According to Joe Hambrook there are several advantages of using video in classroom language learning:
1. Authenticity
One of the main benefits often claimed for video is that it can show language in use in the real world. This is very important for learners to know about how
language is used in the real world in order to show them the use of language in daily life. Hopefully it can help them to have ability for using language
contextually. 2.
Cultural concerns
