Relevant Studies THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

D. Relevant Studies

In this relevant study part, the writer sees other‘s experimental research in teaching listening, especially using language laboratory as a medium. One of them is Akhdiyati. She claimed that using language laboratory to teach listening has met some problems in implementing the material. She has analyzed the use of langua ge laboratory under the title ―Some Problems in Using Language Laboratory in English Listening I nstruction‖ in 2008. 57 According to her, there are problems may arise on the use and in language laboratory displayed. Thus are what have come from the students and the teacher itself. Apart from that, Sugeng uses the language laboratory in implementing the communicative methodology. 58 According to him a language laboratory is a media that must be considered as a means rather than an end. He also proposed that the use of language laboratory can always be function as a fresh variant as the teaching strategies used by the teacher, for it will enhance the instructional objectives. According to Breness ―a language laboratory is a very useful component to improve student‘s listening comprehension….in a specific language program‖ 59 . He conducted the teaching of listening using language laboratory and found out that it has significant improvement in student‘s listening comprehension. He had employed the teaching of listening using language laboratory under the title ‖The language laboratory and the EFL course‖ in 2006. 57 FebyAkhdiyati, ―Some Problems in Using Language Laboratory in English Listening Instruction‖, Skripsi in UIN SyarifHidayatullah Jakarta, Jakarta, 2008, unpublished paper. 58 BambangSugeng, ―Useof Language Laboratory in the Communicative Technology‖, Tesis in FBPS IKIP Yogyakarta, 2006, Unpublished paper. 59 Cesar A. NavasBreness, ―The Language Laboratory and the EFL Course‖, tesis in Costa Rica University, 2006, unpublished paper.

E. Theoretical Framework