Assessing Economic Students’ Expectation and Learning Outcomes of Using Audio Script to Improve Listening Skill on TOEIC Test

Trimarjono, Adrianto Assessing Economic Students’ Expectation and Learning Outcomes of Using Audio Script to Improve Listening Skill on TOEIC Test. Universitas Negeri Malang. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

— The listening skill has been a major difficulty for every language learner when it comes to learning a foreign or second language. The reasons may vary from the unfamiliar sound that the learners heard, the difference pronunciation and intonation that the speaker produced and many other reasons. The same reasons are also found when economic students are obliged to do the TOEIC (Test of English as International Communication) test as one of the passing study requirement. The Economic students' score for listening were low and it becomes serious problems as they had to repeat the test to get the minimal score. This research aims to find out; 1) What are the economic students' expectations on TOEIC listening skill scores? 2) How is the economic students' performance on the TOEIC listening score after given the audio script? 3) Did the use of audio script improve economic students' listening comprehension on the TOEIC test? This research applies descriptive quantitative research with a gap analysis of economic students' expectation with the students' performance or learning outcome. The subject of this study was 50 Economic students with a total of four weeks time period. Each period took about 35 minutes of listening practice. The students were given a questionnaire to find out their listening score expectation; whether they are poor, good, very good or excellent. After given the questionnaire, they were trained using an audio script to improve their listening skill. According to the data analysis of the data collected from the listening score and questionnaire, the positive effect of using the audio script to improve Economic students' listening comprehension on TOEIC test is revealed and above their expectation. Keywords—listening skill, audio script, expectation, learning outcome, students’ performance

Item Type:	Other
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Economic and Business > Management Study Program
Depositing User:	Sulimin BP3
Date Deposited:	13 Mar 2024 07:15
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2024 07:15
URI:	http://erepository.uwks.ac.id/id/eprint/17561

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