JET (Journal of English Teaching) Adi Buana
Vol 1 No 02 (2016)

The Effectiveness of Podcast in Listening Class (Intensive Course Program)

Tera Athena (STKIP PGRI Bangkalan)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Oct 2016

Abstract

Based on Qasim and Fadda study on 2013, the result showed that the use of technology, that was Podcast, is able to contribute positive effect toward the students’ listening skill. The researcher used true-experimental and applied simple random sampling for 66 students into two groups. The way of researcher applied that sampling technique is through students’ attendance list number (even and odd number). The odd number was formed to be a new group. The researcher decided the odd number group as control group and the rest (even number) was an experimental group by throwing the coin. They saved the record in MP3 and USB. They could listen and choose the channel and topic as they like. Their preference to choose the issue will be one of the motivations to use Podcast. And the following step was filling the listening log as the media to evaluate what have they listened. After getting treatment for 8 weeks, the posttest has been analyzed by using SPSS showed that was Ho has been rejected and H1 was accepted. In other words, there was a positive effect from Podcast toward student’s listening skill. The Student’s perception is also good toward the using of Podcast. It can be shown from the results of questionnaire that were given to the 1A (odd number) students.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jet

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

Journal of English Teaching Adi Buana (JET Adi Buana) is firstly published on April 2016 and published twice a year on April and October. The aim of this journal is to accommodate the professional researchers of English teaching who attend to publish their works. It offers articles of current ...