Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab Listening Skill
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c. Situation
Altman 1985: 89 stated that the situation which influences someone to perceive something may be the combination between someone’s past experience
with his or her expectation. If someone had a bad experience in the past, he or she might perceive negatively when acquiring the same stimuli in advance. However,
in case someone had a good experience in the past, he or she would have good expectation to achieve when similar things happen in the future.
d. Self concept
Self concept is the way we feel about and perceive something. The way we see ourselves will also affect our perception. A person has to maintain a relatively
stable, positive self-concept. All those processes happen within an individual and involve the factor of
subjectivity. This is the factor that causes each people to have different perception on particular things. Other factors that affect people in perceiving stimuli are their
likes and dislikes, their experiences and their environments. Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that everyone has his or her own view on
something he or she experiences or feels in the environment. The same object or event can be perceived differently by different person which then lead to different
behavioral response or attitudes. Related to this study, perception is the way how students feel or think about and considers something, in this case is the use of
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab in order to improve students’ listening skill.
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