j. Listen and answer. k. Controlling the speaker.
l. Oral cloze. m. Predicting.
n. Predicting in dialogue. o. Listening with noise.
p. Shadowing the speaker. q. Authentic listening.
r. Listening to the news. s. Watching films.
t. Peer talks. u. Listening to stories.
e. Listening to learn ideas. a. Note the main ideas.
b. Add details. c. Find the main point.
d. Note taking. e. Information transfer.
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2. Teaching Listening with Language Laboratory
Explanation about teaching listening in language learning has been discussed in previous section. Here will only point out the application of teaching listening
with language laboratory. In presenting the teaching of listening to students, language laboratory as a media teaching is now equipped with computer programs
which able to give native sound, picture, motion picture, scripts, etc., and able to give appropriate listening tasks.
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Language laboratory is also well suited that it can give learner their own independence.
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Teaching listening exercises that match with language laboratory sometimes do not match with the program available. Teachers need to be aware of this. In
developing students listening skill, it is required simply noticing features of the
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input.
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Of this reason, the writer promotes teaching listening with suitable language laboratory work.
Teaching listening with language laboratory was done for eight meetings. In the first meeting, the writer gave listening pre-test to students. This was done to
know their listening performance. The second meeting, the teacher introduces the programs available and gives material to students. The third meeting to seventh
meeting was done by giving material, here teacher drills the students to new words and creates their concepts. The last meeting, she gave post-test in order to
get the data about student ‘s achievement or the output. For further explanation
about activities in language laboratory, the following steps of teaching listening in language laboratory are as follow:
Teacher activities Students activities
a. Greets the students by saying assalamualaikum.
a. Answer by
saying waalaikumussalam.
b. Ask students condition ―How
are you today?‖ b. Answer about their present
condition. c. Ask about day and date of the
day ―students, what day is today and what date is today?‖
c. Students try answering this question.
d. Ask students about material that is going to learn.
d. Students try to answer about the material being asked by teacher.
e. Tell the students about the learning objectives.
e. Students listen to teacher.
f. Play the computer program like Rosetta Stone.
g. Ask students to repeat after the model sound which is played by
f. Listen to native-like sound while looking at their screen.
g. Students repeat and practice difficult words they hear.
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teacher. h. Ask the students to choose
which picture is correct to the sound they hear. Teacher can
ask which ever students she wants to answer, individually, in
pair or in groups. h. Choose one correct picture from
four pictures available. Each student gets their change to
choose the correct picture.
i. Play the story of the material for thanking and give the script so
the students can look at it. i. Observe the story being played
by the teacher.
j. Explain about the contextual inferred from the expressions.
j. Listen to teacher explanation.
k. Ask students to repeat after the native recorded sound while
look at their screen. k. Repeat the sound they hear until
they can say it correctly.
l. Drill the students to new vocabulary. In this activity,
teacher can choose students randomly and ask them to say
the word they drill and check their pronunciation.
l. Drill the new vocabulary.
m. Summarize the material that was given in that day.
m. Listen to teacher explanation.
n. Ask students difficulties. n. Answer about their difficulties
in learning listening. o. Close the class session by
saying ―Okay class. That‘s enough for today. Let‘s close
our meeting
by reciting
hamdalah ‖.
o. Together recite hamdalah.
D. Relevant Studies
