Students’ Perceptions Towards the Use of Podcasts in Listening Class

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210427.028How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Listening, podcasts, students’ perceptions, students’ challenges

Abstract

The development of technology is believed to accommodate teachers in creating new environment in learning English. Podcasts are considered to provide an authentic learning material in teaching English, especially for teaching listening. This study is aimed to investigate students’ perception towards the use of podcasts in classroom and reveal students’ challenges in listening to podcasts in classroom. Involving 25 students in one public senior high school in Bandung, this study employed qualitative approach with case study design. The data were gathered through questionnaires, interview, and classroom observation. The result of this study indicates that students’ perceptions towards the use of podcasts in classroom are generally positive. The implementation of podcasts is believed to be beneficial to students’ interest, motivation, and self-perceived performance in listening. Since the content of podcasts are adjusted to the materials learned in classroom, podcasts are believed to generate students’ motivation in learning English. Even though podcasts are positively perceived by students, several challenges regarding to listening activity in classroom are also found. The challenges are related to materials, information processing, students’ English proficiency, and medium. Due to constraint above, this study suggests that the implementation of podcasts in classroom need support especially from teachers and institutions.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fiena Intan Rachmaniputri
AU  - Pupung Purnawarman
AU  - Muhammad Handi Gunawan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - Students’ Perceptions Towards the Use of Podcasts in Listening Class
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 179
EP  - 187
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.028
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.028
ID  - Rachmaniputri2021
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