e. Appreciative listening means listening to get the pleasure of something. For example, listening to the music.
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The summary of Wolvin and Coakel’ s five types of listening means
listening not only try to listen, but also to understand the message by giving the response of what we have listened before.
3. Teaching Listening Skill
In teaching language must balance within teaching the four language skills in order to be able for use the language and develop the language acquisition.
Because between one skill to other skills has a relation that cannot be separated which listening as a foundation for developing other skills. As Carooline T. Linse
mentions you have to listen a word before you able to speak it. You have to speak a word before you able to read it. You have to read a word before you able to
write it.
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A good teaching listening surely has a good technique too. A good technique in teaching helps to reach the purpose of study itself. Here is the
technique of teaching listening according to Miles Craven consists of three stages: a. Pre-listening
Teacher informs learners what they are going to listen before stating listening and asks them to only focus on the information they need.
b. While listening The teacher tries to play the audio once for whole comprehension, then
replay it for specific detail and do not hesitate to repeat the audio in the hard part of listening.
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Christine C. M. Goh, Teaching Listening in the Language Classroom, Singapore: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre, 2002, p. 2.
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Caroline T. Linse and David Nunan, Practical English Language Teaching: for Young Learners, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005, p. 27.
c. Post-listening The teacher tells learners to write a resume of the main points, then
compare it with their friend and check if they have all the main points.
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Moreover, Miles Craven also adding the importance of the variety in different listening sources of listening material offers the more joy in teaching and
learning listening. Game can be used as a way in teaching and learning listening in a fun way to reinforce listening skill.
B. Game
1. Definition of Game
People play and enjoy the game most of the time, but they do not know the meaning of the game itself. They think that the game is only the game which does
not have meaning inside it. It is not true, linguists have defined the meaning of the game is. Here, some of the definitions from linguists are:
According to Andrew Wright, David Betteridge and Michael Buckby, “game means an activity which is entertaining and engaging, often challenging,
and an activity in which the learners play and usually interact with others. ”
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In line with that, Rita Susana Larcabal states “games provide an enjoyable
atmosphere, a situation in which communication is essential and a distraction from the study of language itself.
”
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Jill Hadfield also defines “a game is an
activity with rules, a goal, and an element of fun. ”
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And Byrne points out that “game as a form of play governed by rules.
They should be enjoyed and fun. They are not just a diversion, a break from routine activities, but a way of getting the learner to use the language in the course
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Miles Craven,
How to
Teach Listening
Skill, http:www.onestopenglish.comskillslisteningteaching-tipshow-to-teach-listeninglistening-
skills-top-tips146219.article , Accessed on February 3
th
, 2016.
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Andrew Wright, David Betteridge, and Michael Buckby, Games for Langugae LearningThird Edition, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, p. 1.
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Rita Susana Larcabal, The Role of Game in Language Acquisition, Washington D.C: English Teaching Forum, 1992, p. 28.
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Jill Hadfield, Elementary Communication Games, Essex: Longman, 1996, p. 4.
