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In the interview, the researcher also found that the lecturer did not give listening assignment for the students. The assignment would be given if the
discussion of the material was not finished because of the time limitation. Therefore, the students should learn by themselves to improve their listening
ability. Besides, when the researcher asked about gamification, the lecturer said that she did not used gamification in her classroom. She said that gamification is
not familiar yet. At the end of the interview, the lecturer also suggested that the researcher
should develop a listening media using gamification so that the students can access the material and also do some listening exercises outside the class. This
material designed was expected to help the students to improve their listening skills and also to motivate students to get engage in the learning activity.
b. Second Participant
This interview was conducted on Thursday, 31 April 2016. The interviewee of this interview was the lecturer of the Intermediate Listening Class
A. The interview aimed to find out the listening material and activities applied in the classroom so that the researcher could conclude the kind of material and
classroom activities which were appropriate for the Intermediate Listening Class. The data obtained were used as the basis information to design appropriate
supplementary material using gamification for the Intermediate Listening Class. From the interview, the researcher found out that the lecturer also used the
same syllabus as a guideline of the Intermediate Listening Class. Hence, the topics and skills prepared were the same. The difference among the lecturers of the
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Intermediate Listening Class was the rhythm of the teaching and learning activity. In the interview, the lecturer also said that he took long time to do pre-listening
activity. He usually used discussion, vocabulary building, text, short video, or real listening in order to activate
students’ prior knowledge. Besides, the lecturer also had main activity and also post-listening activity. The main activity was listening
to the passage related to the topic and the skills which wanted to be achieved. On the other hand, the lecturer also said that he did not give any
assignments related to listening activity. He gave some assignment related to the topic of the meeting such as making advertisement and making a short video.
However, he said that he planned to make online assignment which related to listening activity after the mid test because he believed that listening is continuous
learning. Therefore, students needed more practice in order to improve their listening ability.
In addition, the lecturer also explained about students’ characteristic and difficulties. He said that some students did not get the idea of the passage because
of the speed of the audio. The speed was too fast for them. In order to solve this problem, the lecturer tried to play the passage 3-4 times. Besides, they also faced
difficulties because they did not have many vocabularies. Therefore, the lecturer always did vocabulary building before playing the audio and then made a
discussion about the topic. In addition, the studentswere not accustomed to note taking and it made them difficult to get the idea. Besides, the accent also gave a
big influence to the students. The lecturer also explained about the general characteristic of the students. The first class was more active than the second
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class. The first class could get the idea of the passage faster. However, the second class needed more motivation to learn.
Then, the researcher tried to ask about gamification. However, the lecturer said that he did not used gamification because it was not familiar enough.
Therefore, he did not apply gamification in his class. However, the lecturer expected that the material design should be online because it would help students
to access the material. The lecturer also expected that the material should contained critical questions, challenges, social interactions, and also feedbacks for
each questions or quizzes. The material should made the students have fun but in the same time learning English as well.
3. The Result of Classroom Observation
a. Class Observation in the Intermediate Listening Class A
The class observation was done on Monday, 18 April 2016. This class started from 11.00 a.m. to 13.00 p.m. In the beginning of the class, the lecturer
opened the learning activity with greetings and discussion. Then, the lecturer distributed the handout. They discussed the first part of the handout which
consisted of brief explanation about the topic, four questions related to the topic, and also vocabularies. In order to discuss those parts, the lecturer divided the
students in several groups. However, some groups did not pay attention to the instruction. Therefore, some of them did not discuss those parts until the lecturer
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On the class discussion, the students on the class were not involved to the discussion. They did not know the answer of the questions and also the meaning
of the vocabularies. Only some of the students were involved on the discussion to answer the questions or share their opinion about the topic. After the discussion,
the lecturer started to play a 15-minute video related to the topic. The lecturer also reminded the students to take notes and answer 15 questions provided on the
handout. After watching the video, the lecturer started to give the students some
questions to draw the conclusion of the video. However, many students did not take any notes in their handouts. Therefore, they did not answer the questions
from the lecturer but some of them remembered some meaningful words from the video. Then, they drew the conclusion of the video with the lecturer. In the end of
the meeting, the lecturer asked the students to access the video and answers 15 questions on the handouts which became their assignments from the course.
During the teaching and learning activity, the researcher found out that the students in this class were passive. They needed to be encouraged to learn and
practice the four basic skills of English language. In addition, they also needed to enrich their vocabularies in order to improve their skills.
b. Class Observation in the Intermediate Listening Class E
The class observation was done on Friday, 01 April 2016. This class started at 07.00 a.m. until 09.00 a.m. This class consisted of students from second
and sixth semesters. In the beginning of the class, the lecturer played several English songs and then she opened the class with a prayer. After that, she had a
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discussion about the Easter Holiday. In the discussion, some students were trying to share their holiday but the other students did not share anything to the class.
Then, the lecturer started to give questions about the topic discussed in the meeting. In this section, there were some students who want to answer the
questions and the lecturer tried to give a question to the student who never answers the questions given.
After discussion, the lecturer gave a handout which was used as listening exercises. The lecturer explained the instructions on the handout and also asked
the students to read the handout before playing the audio. Then, the lecturer played the audio twice. The first listening was used to answer true or false
statement and the second listening was used to answer five questions related to the passage. After the second listening, the lecturer asked the students to discuss in a
group of three or four. In the discussion the students tried to complete their answer. After that, the lecturer played the audio once again and asked the students
to check their answer. In the end of the listening activity, the lecturer started to discuss the answer of the questions one by one. The lecturer asked some students
who has different answer to share and then she gave feedback about their answer. In the end of the class, the lecturer gave two more questions related to the passage
and made a group discussion. After the discussion, the lecturer chose four groups to share their opinion about the questions given. During the class, the researcher
found out some difficulties faced by the students. Some of the students did not get the answer because they have limited vocabularies. Besides, some of them were
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