Technology to teach listening and speaking

by : Meilani RL

            Today technology becoming a part of learning process in order to make it interesting and easy to absorb by the students. Now teaching listening, speaking, writing and reading are not a scary things anymore like ten years ago, we can integrated them into one programme for example voice thread. But now we are going to talk about listening and speaking only, as we know that they usually related to the student’s life and for me it is a little bit difficult rather than writing or reading.

            In learning English we have some approaches that will help us to receive the materials, it means some method that success develop student’s listening skill. According to Kreshen hypothesis he said that listening has two approaches, they are natural approach and total physical response which focuses on comprehensible input and optimum affective state of the learner. Comprehensible here means students understand what they learn by the technology that provides them the picture, sound, description about the idea of listening. Not only have that with computer students easily repeated the materials until they really got it.

            The second approaches is optimum affective which has a lot of impact in student’s environment in learning second language, the teachers have to make a good situation where the students relax and comfort to learn. Based on Kreshen theory we know that the more students feel stress they will not get anything, so in here as a new generation of teacher our duty is make a new learning process involves the technology also the pedagogical. Even technology willincrease very fastas long as we live, we still need a teacher to guide it to make sure that students walk in the right track. I am proud to be a teacher with or without technology because no matter what, the great teacher is somebody who can teach her/his students in their own way in every condition.

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