Banjert Chongapiratanakul. The use of podcast for English listening development. (). King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok. Central Library. : , 2016.
The use of podcast for English listening development
Abstract:
The present study aims to compare the students achievement between those who practice their
English listening by web-based podcasts and those who practice in the language lab (no podcasts), and to
examine the students opinions towards English listening by web-based podcast technology. The research
respondents were 54 engineering students from Rajamangala University of Technology North Bangkok,
Thailand. Six research instruments were employed for data collection, including test (both pre-test and posttest),
listening units, podcasts, the designed website, questionnaire, and interview. T-test was nominated to
analyze the gained results. The research found that practices by the web-based podcasts could enhance
the students listening skill. At this point, it was evident that the students who listened to the podcasts
achieved the higher test scores than those who listened to the recordings (no podcasts). Moreover, most
of students strongly agreed that the real-life contents were helpful in their listening practice as well as the
3-step listening activities were supportive. Importantly, they were strongly satisfied with listening practice
by the web-based podcasts.
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