The Use of Gadgets in Extensive Listening Classes
Anne Indrayanti Timotius Maria Christina Eko Setyarini Satya Wacana Christian University
Recently, the English Language Teaching Program of the Faculty of Language and Literature of Satya Wacana Christian University has developed a new curriculum to cope with the demand of KKNI curriculum. Extensive listening course is one of the courses in the new curriculum. The course requires each student to listen extensively by finding their own materials for listening from the sources recommended by the lecturers. They are also required to listen to video or audio recordings both inside and outside the classroom. The genres that are covered in this class are news, children short stories, and short stories. Other than listening, the classroom activities also include sharing in which students can listen from their friends’ recordings and discuss what they have listened. To do this, students are required to bring their own gadgets that they can use to play the recording and headsets to the classroom. As a consequence, each class is full of different kinds of gadgets, laptops, net books, smart phones, and tablets. Interestingly, the students seem to enjoy the class. This has made the writers interested to conduct a study. The study was aimed to investigate students’ perceptions on the use of gadgets in listening classes. Therefore, questionnaires were distributed to around 110 students taking the course. The findings are expected to make a contribution for future Extensive Listening classes or other classes that make use of gadgets.
Anne I. Timotius is a lecturer at the English Department, Faculty of Language and Literature, at Satya Wacana Christian University. She got her bachelor degree in English Education from the English Department, Faculty of Language and Literature, at Satya Wacana Christian University and her master’s degree in Education from Monash University, Australia.
