Authentic Materials in Fostering EFL Students Listening Comprehension

DOI

10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.295How to use a DOI?

Keywords

authentic materials; listening comprehension; materials development; EFL

Abstract

Selecting and presenting materials in a listening classroom especially in coping with the difficulties in catching the meaning and the information and the limitation of the materials produced by the native speakers become the problems in teaching listening in EFL context. The way how the materials presented is also an important thing in mastering listening. Thus the selection of authentic materials is an urgent factor to be considered before implementing it in EFL listening classroom. The research is aimed at investigating the selection of authentic materials in fostering students’ listening comprehension in an EFL classroom. This study focused on the selection of authentic materials in teaching listening comprehension. This case study was designed to concentrate on the teacher’s way of planning and designing the authentic materials to be implemented by an English teacher who teaches at eleventh grade at one private senior high school in Pekanbaru, Riau Province. The data were collected by documents, classroom observations, and interviews. The data were analyzed by theory of designing materials proposed by Howard and Major [1]. The findings indicated that the selection of the authentic materials by the teacher could foster students’ listening comprehension. The materials selected could improve students’ vocabulary and could motivate the students to learn. In addition, the findings also indicated that the selection of authentic materials was implemented well in the classroom. Further suggestion is made to address classroom problems regarding the variety of materials in teaching EFL listening comprehension.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Dian Ekawati
AU  - Fazri Nur Yusuf
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Authentic Materials in Fostering EFL Students Listening Comprehension
BT  - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 422
EP  - 426
SN  - 2352-5398
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