Digital literacy in learning listening skill between English and Non-English Department students through educational video

Danti Pudjiati,Tira Nur Fitria

doi:10.30595/lks.v16i1.13016

Abstract

As the usage of ICT in teaching and learning, digital literacy becomes well-liked for Indonesian English department and non-English department students from Jakarta and Central Java. This research is to investigate both the students’ listening comprehension and their insight into educational videos for improving their listening skills. The objectives are: 1) finding out the students listening comprehension through watching VOA Learning English, 2) obtaining the students' perception of listening to English?, 3) exploring students' preferences to listen through video?, 4) investigating the listening media and topic the students like to listen to?, 5) probing the students' familiarity with VOA Learning English? This research was a comparative study including descriptive statistics. The questionnaire results revealed that the students from the two campuses shared similarities and differences in their preferences to increase their listening skills through video. The students of the English department and non-English department listening comprehension were categorized as fair since most of them reached scores between seventy and eighty. The majority of both English department and non-English department students like to listening English. However, they prefer watching a video in the form of a combination between monolog and dialog. They were enjoy the song for improving their listening skill. They also commit that the VOA video was interesting since it was designed to help them in developing their English skills daily. Likewise, such videos performed native speakers as role models which are favored by English department and non-English department students. Besides, they like to receive the questions after the video ends.

Highlights

The development of technology changes the learning orientation from conventional learning to digital learning (Kurniawan and Kuswandi, 2021)
Only 1% of EFL and 33% of non-English department students obtained a score above 82 classified as good. It meant that the difference was 33 times larger, showing an affirmation that more non- English department students were good at understanding the listening in English
To find out whether or not listening to English becomes a popular subject, we discovered that most English department students, 57, and most of the non-English department students, 162, expressed a similar statement i.e. all of them like to listen to English

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Introduction

The development of technology changes the learning orientation from conventional learning to digital learning (Kurniawan and Kuswandi, 2021). Technology plays a very important role in people's lives today and can be used in various aspects of life. Today's society tends to use technology in activities and find job information, complete work, and even search for information via the Internet. It has grown rapidly so that everyone can access a variety of useful information for the development of each individual through the Internet. Countless information found on the Internet leads to be implemented for teaching materials. Teaching materials via the general internet are more up to date, not surprisingly, many students are interested in reading and accessing this

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