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Hello guys, today i'd like to share you some gaps between the first journal article i have reviewed and the second journal article i was reading. The topic is about analyzing the weaknesses and the strengths of those two articles. But what i've done is analyzing it slightly. So, this is not a deep analyzing (pardon me).  This is probably will be the shortest blog i've ever made. I really enjoy reading my first journal article about the experiment of using two viewing techniques in applying a video. I feel like i could understand the first journal article more than the second one eventhough both of them already have sentence structures and vocabularies that are not really complicated to me. I really like the method section of the first journal article i've read, the authors really explained it clearly. It shows when the authors divide the section method into three parts which are participants, video materials, and the procedure of doing their research.  The ...

Hello, everyone! Welcome to my another blog. Today i want to make a brief review of its literature review from the journal article i was reading. The title of my journal is YouTube Videos in Teaching Listening: The enefits in Experts’ Views.  First, let's talk about the concept of authentic video materials and Youtube. When we directly interact with the authentic material from language that we wanted to learn, it'll make us to be easier to learn that language. And Youtube is seen as one of the authentic materials. According to Chhabra (2012), Youtube videos can help learners to learn the aspect of language, such as writing, vocabulary, pronunciation, accents, and so on. Youtube is also free from charges to be use by everyone. However, there are some speakers who have unclear pronunciations and poor sounds and video quality that make those as the lack of using Youtube in language learning. Since nowadays we are provided by technology stuff, such as Youtube. Teaching li...

Hello, everyone! Today, i'd like to share my new reading material, it's still about scientific article. My concern is still into listening skill. However there are some differences and similarities between two of these articles. Oh, i almost forgot to tell you what my new reading material is. The title is "YouTube Videos in Teaching Listening: The Benefits in Experts’ Views" which had been collected by Lidia Puspa Ayu in 2016. As you can read from its title, this article is about experts' perspective towards the advantage of using YouTube as an instructional tool in teaching listening.  Now, i'm about to compare the journal article i've reviewed previously and the journal article i haven't read to it entirely. Anyways, my previous journal review has "The Impact of Silent and Freeze-Frame Viewing Techinques of Video Materials on the Intermediate EFL Learners' Listening Comprehension as its title. The similarity — both of them are ...

Hello, everyone! Today i want to continue my article journal review which will be talking about the result and discussion section of that article. If you haven't read my previous blog, please go on to this link . Result   The findings of this research showed that there is a difference while using silent and freeze-frame control mode to improve students' listening comprehension. There is largerst difference between the mean scores of using silent viewing technique (silent viewing group-one of the experimental groups) and the control group. However, there is no significant difference between the silent viewing group and the freeze-frame viewing group. Discussion Using audiovisual tool to improve students' listening comprehension creates more interesting and challenging experience for both learners and teachers. Using it will provide EFL learners with content, context, and language.  I think that's all about today's topic. Using video material by using...

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog! Today, i'm going to talk about the journal article i was reading. If you haven't read my previous blog, go on to this link .  In the previous blog, i made a summary of the literature review on the article i was reading. Now, i want to make another summary which will be focused on the research method that used in this article. Anyways, the researcher used experimental method to collect their data. Participants The participants were 45 Iranian high school learners. They were in the third and fourth grade and in the age range of 16 to 18 years. The 45 participants were divided into 3 groups of 15 intermediate learners. The three groups have two experimental groups and one control group. Experimental group (A) treated with silent viewing mode to be used on playing the video materials, while the experimental group (B) treated with freeze frame viewing mode. The control group didn't receive any treatment. Instruments -...

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog! Today, i'm going to talk about the journal article i am reading. If you haven't read my previous blog, go to this link .  In the previous blog, i talked about the reason why i choose this journal article as my reading material in my Academic Reading class, and the introduction of its article. Now, we're gonna talk about the literature review section of this article. Here's the summary. Let's begin with the historical development of listening instruction! Listening is always developing through years by years. In 1960s, the way to teach listening was influenced by Behaviorism, that makes listening was considered as a passive skill. But, it had changed when Chomsky critized that learning should posses mental activity and comprehension as the step of language learning which makes listening was not viewed to be a passive skill. During the 1980s and 1990s, language teaching began to use communicative approach and tas...