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109-Article Text-316-2-10-20220123
109-Article Text-316-2-10-20220123
ABSTRACT
The collaboration of Digital Technology and learning has become one
great topic recently. Many people try to search for good ways to support
their teaching and learning process through digital technology.
Technology has offered many kinds of applications that can help students
and teachers. The Music platforms and podcasts consist of many things
that can help the students improve their English, especially their English
skills. In this literature review, I would like to find and share the role of
Digital Technology in supporting students’ Listening through music
platforms and podcasts. And the methodology that I would like to use is
the qualitative method in which there will be some interviews and videos
in collecting the data. And reading through all the results of the
interviews and drawing some connections between digital technology
and the learning process to analyze the data, the participants are from X
Grade students of Makassar Adventists Senior High School. As a result,
those students who are active with digital technology, especially the
music platforms and podcasts, have better listening skills than those who
are not. Here the writer found out that digital music platforms and
podcasts can support students’ listening skills.
INTRODUCTION
In this modern life, English has become an essential role in education,
especially to the youth. Even though English is not the only most spoken
language globally, we cannot deny that English has become an official language
of the world. And due to globalization time, English has become an essential
language in the world. English has a vital role in the lives of the youth because it
can help them for communication, not only for that, but English is also the
primary language for studying many subjects all over the world. It means English
can help the youth to broaden their minds, develop some skills, and it can also
improve the youths’ quality of life in many circumstances.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Listening Skill
Listening skills are needed in our daily speaking life; we can understand
someone speaking by listening. With exemplary listening skills, then there will be
no misunderstanding between other people. As we all know, we spend a lot of
time listening; the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to
listen. “Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is
our attention” (Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen).
We can deliver an excellent message to others by having good listening
skills. Still, if we don’t have good listening skills, the message we want to deliver
sometimes will be misunderstood. According to Marleni (2016) “listening is a
language skill to understand the spoken text and build the language skill to
communicate in the actual situation”.
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Digital Technology
Digital Technology is a kind of tool which is famous and essential for a
couple of past years. Since the world knows digital technology, many people,
from the young to the adult-use this kind of tool. The tool is valuable and exciting
because it contains many exciting parts. Digital Technology has become
increasingly crucial to human's everyday life in daily speaking for
communication, workplace, education, and many more.
Digital Technology is one tool that uses human power as a manual but
more to the automatically operating system. Digital Technology has transformed
nearly every aspect of modern life. Travel, work, shopping, entertainment, and
communications are just some of the areas that have been revolutionized in recent
decades. It is now rare to find an electronic device or machinery that does not
incorporate digital technology somehow.
Digital technology enables the storage of massive amounts of information
in relatively small pieces.
A large number of media, such as photos, music, videos, contact
information, and other documents, can be carried around on small devices like
mobile phones (https://turbofuture.com). There are many examples of digital
technology. Some are websites, buying and selling online, smartphones, smart
TV, video streaming, digital music, and many more. Therefore, Digital
Technology has an essential role in people's life of living.
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Digital Music Platform
A digital music platform is where we can stream some music or songs. So
on the music platform, we can hear as many songs as we want because so many
kinds of music and song are included in the music platform.
Many lists of the top music streaming platforms; Spotify is trendy.
Spotify is a digital music and video service that gives us access to millions of
songs and other content from creators worldwide. So we can listen to as many
songs as possible, besides it can increase our immune by the motivation words in
each song. We can also improve our listening skills by hearing and practicing our
listening skills through the words sung by the singers.
Podcast
The podcast is well known in modern life. People tend to learn many
things from podcasts in real life. There are three types of podcasts. The first is
audio means sound only and is most prevalent in MP3. The second is enhanced
Audio, which means sound with images, and the last is video means movies and
my other forms, MPEG 4
The podcast is originally from "pod," which means iPod, one of the most
popular audio devices. Nowadays, the podcast can be played on any portable
digital media device. The term 'podcasting' is a combination of the words' iPod"
and "broadcasting" refers to the distribution of audio content. An audio podcast is
like a radio broadcast, except those listeners don't have to tune in at a particular
time. Instead, users can subscribe to a podcast and automatically receive a
download copy of each new episode. Users can listen to a podcast through their
computer or an MP3 player such as an iPod.
In education, podcasts can increase students' listening skills and improve
their listening skills for some vocabularies. By watching some videos material in
podcasts, the students can learn many things and increase their listening skills.
Umida. B.B (2021) said that the use of audio and video materials to develop
listening comprehension effectively and enhance students' listening
comprehension due to the combination of visual images and sound, which
stimulate students' perceptions. In addition, we should acknowledge the
importance of the tone and speed of speech which is spontaneous, similar to that
in daily-life situations.
METHODOLOGY
This literature review research study discussed a review of some previous
articles about their concepts, theories, and findings. A literature review is a piece
of academic writing demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the
academic literature on a specific topic placed in context. A literature review also
includes a critical evaluation of the material; therefore, it is a literature review
rather than a literature report. The purpose of this literature review is to create a
viewpoint and give the full understanding of the findings related to the field of
this study.
The literature review surveys of the research use some data sources, such
as articles, journals, books, observation, surveys, interviews, and other sources.
The researchers reviews the literature article based on the situations that
happened in the classroom by describing students’ English listening
comprehension in using digital platforms. The researchers presented the concept
of developing students’ listening skills through digital music platforms and
podcasts. By having an observation, the researchers will find out the relationship
of digital music platforms and podcasts with the student's English listening
comprehension.
After doing some research and examining the result, the researchers
combined them into one frame of conclusion by collecting some kinds of
literature and doing some research in which this process will help expand some
knowledge. Finally, the conclusion would be presented as the consideration for
educators, students, and other education departments that will be helpful to solve
some problems in education, especially in English listening comprehension.
CONCLUSION
We cannot deny that technology has changed people’s life to a better
thing, in many aspects, especially in education. Teachers and students have been
helped a lot by the invention of this greatest gift by God. It has changed the
world into an easier life.
In English listening skills especially, by some applications created by the
technology the teachers and students can improve themselves to a better one. By
listening to some songs on Spotify and watching some English Podcast videos,
the students will get entertainment and a better future in English.
Music platform such as Spotify delivers millions of songs and podcasts.
Young people like to listen to songs and watch them. In Spotify, there is a text
for every song that can make it the students easier to practice their English,
especially listening skills. Anggraini & Fauzy stated that Listening to English
songs could enhance the listening skill because the song is one of the media that
is interested in improving listening skills.
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