Utilizing Podcast to Improve Informatics Management Students’ Listening Comprehension and Participation at Amik Mitra Gama

Abstract

Technology of podcasting becomes a popular teaching media in education nowadays. It gives the students opportunity to study anytime and anywhere. It is flexible, dynamics and powerful to improve students listening comprehension. It gives new challenge in the context of language learning especially listening that as first skill of language acquisition. This was a classroom action research study. It aims at identifying the listening improvement of third semester students of Informatics Management at AMIK Mitra Gama academic year 2019/2020 by using podcasts. The participants were 24 students(3 MMI class). Finding of this study showed that utilizing podcast can improve not only student’s listening comprehension achievement (66.96% in fisrt cycle to 68,29% in second cycle) but also student’s participation (46,67% in cycle 1 to 56,67% in cycle 2). In sum, podcasts can be an attractive media in teaching listening at AMIK Mitra Gama.

The Effectiveness of Podcast on Listening Skill for Vocational School Students

“…However, it is important for students to choose podcasts based on their ability level. Based on its separation, ELT podcasts are divided into three categories which are authentic podcast, teachercreated podcast, and student-created podcast (Melati et al, 2020). Authentic podcasts are suitable for students in advanced level and some are suitable for students in intermediate and beginner levels.…”