Audio only or Video?: Multimodality for Listening Comprehension

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10.2991/conaplin-16.2017.41How to use a DOI?

Keywords

listening comprehension; audio listening; video listening; multimodality

Abstract

Listening plays a vital role in EFL classes. With the advance of technology nowadays, teachers can use more than one means - namely multimodality - as a tool of instruction. This study is aimed to discover whether audio or video modality is more beneficial for EFL students in listening comprehension. It used the post-test control group design to measure the participants' performances with regard to the different types of modality in listening comprehension test. The participants, 50 students of English Department of a private university in Greater Jakarta area, were given two types of test: Audio listening test (ALT) and Video listening test (VLT). The analysis used quantitative method - t-test in SPSS program - which compared the results of two kinds of the test. The findings show that there is a significant difference between the results of ALT and those of VLT. It suggests that VLT provides better scores compared to ALT scores.

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© 2017, 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Menik Winiharti
AU  - Clara Herlina
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Audio only or Video?: Multimodality for Listening Comprehension
BT  - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 9)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 189
EP  - 192
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/conaplin-16.2017.41
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