IMPROVING LISTENING SKILLS WITH THE HELP OF PODCASTS AND NOTE-TAKING STRATEGY
Keywords:
listening comprehension, EFL, authentic materials, podcasts, English, note taking.Abstract
As the English language has become an international language of today’s world, the number of individuals who are eager to learn English is rising day by day. In everyday life, most needed skills of the English language are listening and speaking as they are crucial parts of the communication among people. Listening provides the conversation move smoothly – if the listener understands the speech well, it avoids misunderstanding. So, this research has the objective to improve learners’ listening comprehension through the use of podcasts with the help of note-taking strategy in EFL classrooms. 30 students from state schools in Uzbekistan were chosen as sample for this research with distribution of 15 in experiment class and 15 in control class. In this research an experimental method was applied. According to the results of questionnaire, learners said that listening to podcasts with the note-taking strategy became really useful tool to improve their listening comprehension as podcasts provide authentic tasks, meaningful and interesting activities to stay motivated.
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