Essay On Listening Skills

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Language is an instrument that human being use to communicate with others in order to convey ideas. People use language to interact with other people. People can get information and knowledge by using language.
Nowadays, many people learn more than one language in order to be able to communicate with people from another country. English is the most language learned by the people in the world because English is an international language. As an international language, English is used to communicate with and relate to other people in the world. Therefore, English is being a subject in Indonesia that is taught from elementary to university level.
There are four basic skills in English. Those are speaking, reading, writing, and listening. Listening …show more content…

• Improves listening skills.
• Really engages the boys who love the acting.
• Is enjoyed by children from kindergarten to the end of elementary school.
• Gives a motivating reason for English-language learners to speak and write English.
H. Theoretical and Empirical Review
Dictogloss can improve the students’ listening comprehension. The teacher asks students to listen the important content, find the specific information of the listening text, and write only what is necessary. Teachers can guide students to be more aware of the different kinds of listening strategies to reach their aim in any dictation activity which involves listening comprehension.
Brown in Jacobs (2003) states that dictogloss has been the subject of numerous studies and commentaries, which have largely supported use of the technique. One reason for this is that is integrative.
While using dictogloss technique, students are encouraged to focus some of their attention and that all four language skills – listening (to the teacher read the text), speaking (to group mates during the reconstruction), reading (the new construction of the text and the original text), and writing the reconstruction) – are involved. So this technique can be used to master the reading, listening, writing and speaking

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