Hello fellas ! Long time no see ya :D In this chance,i would like to inform you about my journal reviews. This reviews only tell about the introduction of the journal "Improving Students Listening Ability By Using Chain Whispering Words or Sentence Technique at The First Year of SMP SOMBA OPU SUNGGUMINASA GOWA"
A. About the author :
This journal was written by Mukarrama , Hj. Mardianah, and H. Abd. Muis Said of The English Education Department in UIN Alauddin Makassar. This research aimed to finding out the student’s increase ability in listening by using Chain Whispering Technique and the students’ attitude toward the use of the technique. The problem statement in this research are : (1) what is the students improvement their abilities in listening by using Chain Whisper Technique? (2) What is the students’ attitude toward the use of Chain Whisper technique?. The researcher used pre experimental method with one group pre-test and post test design. The population was 60 students at the first year of SMP Somba Opu Sungguminasa Gowa in academic 2013/2014. The number of sample was 30 students. The instrument of this research consisted of two kinds’ namely listening test (pre-test and post-test) and questionnaire for students’ attitude.
B. Introduction Journal Reviews
The researchers told about that writing,reading,listening and speaking skills are very necessary in learning English. To developing the children's competency, listening skill is the most important thing or it's called a receptive skills. As a humans, we are not only want to hear, but also want to know the purpose of the problem. For that,we must be active and have a good listening skills. The students learn the oral language through listening because there are very close to the learning language.
Listening is the main basis for developing the students' communication in oral language. For teachers, listening skills are the most important thing also the most complicated in learning English. To interact daily,english students must improve their listening. They must have skill to change the listening language into a speech language. For that, the teacher are required to have a creative technique when they are teach the material to the student. The researchers also put a statement from Silberman (1998: 1). Silberman stated that what he heard, he forgot; what he heard and saw, he remembered a little; what he heard, saw, and asked or discussed about others, he began to understand; what he heard, saw, discussed, and whether he gained knowledge and skills; what he taught others, he mastered.
The author gives the title "IMPROVING STUDENTS’ LISTENING ABILITY BY USING CHAIN WHISPERING WORDS OR SENTENCES TECHNIQUE AT THE FIRST YEAR OF SMP SOMBA OPUSUNGGUMINASA GOWA" because this chain whisper techniques is an innovative and creative method for students so they will interested in developing listening skills. For this reason, this technique is very useful for teachers in improving listening skill for the students.
Well,that's all about my journal reviews. See you next time !
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