Papers by Dinara Kushanbayeva
Improvment student's listening ability through movies. Listening skill like other language skills... more Improvment student's listening ability through movies. Listening skill like other language skills needs students to practice a lot not only at the classroom but also outside the classroom. To make the students practice listening outside the classroom, the teacher may ask them to do listening activities, such as listening to the English song, news, lectures, speeches and watching movies. The listening activity discussed in this paper is asking students to watch the English movies outside the classroom. The idea to ask students to watch the movie is inspired by Norris (1993) thought. He states that teachers need to design activities to facilitate the practice of the listening skills, based on students' knowledge about the characteristics of the informal oral English language, in order to help students succeed in their learning. Thus watching movies could become an interesting activity of learning a foreign language especially listening skill since students like watching movies. The activities of watching movies are followed by making report that will be presented in the classroom. In this globalization era, where internet can be easily accessed finding the authentic materials such as movie or film for teaching material is not so difficult. They can be exploited in language classroom because movies or films are contextually rich source of authentic material that can be used in teaching Listening, Speaking and Writing skills. Therefore various listening activities can be done by using movies or films. Teaching of listening skill needs students to practice a lot. It will make them familiar with the spoken language and help them to understand more, because by having more practices students will have many opportunities to listen to spoken language. Since many people like watching movies, asking students to watch the English movies, and make the reports of them can be interesting and challenging activities for them. By watching movies students are introduced to the real context of language and a wide range of vocabulary that they cannot get in learning in the classroom. In addition they will listen to the correct pronunciation, stress and intonation, and also useful expressions. When students are asked to watch the movie and assign them to do something related to the movie they have watched, like making movie report it will be enjoyable for them. While they are entertained they also learn many things. Students are expected to be able to comprehend spoken language and improve their ability in listening comprehension. The assignment is begun by watching the movie, and ended by presenting the report in the classroom. There are some reasons why the students assigned to watch the movie and make the report of it. First, watching movie is interesting and motivating because the students will feel entertaining by watching the movies. They may see their favorite actor/actress or even their idols. They can listen, learn and imitate how the characters pronounce the words, phrases or sentences. Second, they also can learn the context of the phrases or sentences. Third, students can learn meaningful expressions through
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Papers by Dinara Kushanbayeva