The Impact of Shadowing Technique on Tertiary EFL Learners’ Listening Skill Achievements

Abstract

This paper is aimed at describing the impact of Shadowing Technique on students' listening skills achievement. Therefore, the experimental research was conducted and the techniques on collecting the data were administrating pre-and post-tests to the experiment and control groups, which consisted of 30 university students in each group. Then, t-test and ANCOVA were applied on analyzing the data, then to find the impact of shadowing technique on EFL learners' listening skill achievements in English Department of Universitas Negeri Medan (UNIMED), Indonesia. As a result, there was a significant difference between the mean of experimental and control groups (F = 8.98, p=. 004 < .05). In addition, there was a significant effect of applying shadowing technique on students' listening skill achievements (F=56.10, p=0.00<0.05) and the experimental group grammatically outperformed the control group. In conclusion, the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis was accepted.

Acoustic Account of Prosodic Competence through Shadowing

“…The current paper has pulled together the studies of phonological fluency that employed shadowing as a research method. The majority of such studies were conducted in the East Asian context involving learners from Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia and China (e.g., Hamada, 2018;Omar & Umehara, 2010;Manseur, 2015;Mishima, 2017;Hsieh et al, 2013;Hussain & Sajid, 2015;Zakeri, 2014;Haufe, 2012;Horiyama, 2012;Foote & McDonough, 2017;Hamada, 2018, Sumarsih, 2017. This body of research provided the impetus for the present study to look into the issue in a new yet relevant context: the Arab context.…”

The Use of Shadowing Technique on Developing Oral Reading Fluency, Comprehension and Attitude Towards Reading of Fifth Primary School Students

“…In contrast to the passive oral repetition, "shadowing is an active and highly cognitive activity" (Zakeri, 2014, p. 21), in which the shadower respond to a speech through an instant "rhythmic acoustic tracking task" (Wang, 2017, p. 195), and vocalizing as clearly as possible. The research conducted to date arrives at several common agreements on the benefits of using shadowing technique (Commander & Guerrero, 2016;Hamada, 2015;Sumarsih, 2017), among these benefits are the following: ▪ Activating the process of the bottom-up and top-down of comprehension on condition of being implemented in an interactive way. ▪ Promoting phoneme perception and fastening working memory to maintain sounds more precisely, leading to spending more time in language analysis.…”

Learning Model Course Choukai through Shadowing Technique

“…One possible technique is shadowing (Wardhana, 2018). Previously, the shadowing technique was used to measure the achievement of EFL students in the English Department of Medan State University (UNIMED) in listening skills by (Sumarsih, 2017). There were significant differences and effects before and after using the shadowing technique, which this technique had a positive impact on student achievement in listening skills.…”