LISTENING
TO TALK SHOW; HOW TO IMPROVE LISTENING COMPREHENSION
A. INTRODUCTION
There are many experts’ opinion and many
ways to improve the comprehension of listeners. I think listeners can improve
their comprehension if they do some exercise in many times and ways, and use some
strategies in listening. There are several ways by Miki Garcia (1993)
such as; listen daily, watch English films, and speak daily.
Listen daily. There are countless ways to
listen to English online, such as CNN, BBC World, radio stations, and so on.
Try to listen attentively, take a note, and summarize what has been reported.
If you didn't understand it, repeat it again. If you find real life English a
little difficult, find something easier.
Watch English
films. If you are a beginner, watch it with English subtitles. If you are
learning American English, then stick with American films. Do not translate
into your native language. Try to think in English while watching by using an
English dictionary. If you are into sports, watch sports in English through
satellite or cable TV.
Speak English
daily. Speaking, listening, writing and reading abilities go hand in hand.
Increase vocabulary everyday. Set time for studying English every day, for
example 30 minutes before going to work. Try to have a conversation with
English speaking people as often as possible. If you don't live in an English
speaking country, make an effort and be proactive. Enroll in English classes,
attend English forums, join English-speaking expat groups, and volunteer to
speak with English-speaking tourists, and so on. Learn about your country's
culture and history, so that you can explain them to foreign tourists.
This
project is about my experience in listening to the talk show. It will present
the content of the text and discuss how I improve my comprehension to the talk
show.
B. DESCRIPTION
Talk show is a television program or radio
program where one person (or group of people) discusses various topics put
forth by a talk show host. Sometimes, talk shows feature a panel of guests,
usually consisting of a group of people who are learned or who have great
experience in relation to whatever issue is being discussed on the show for
that episode.
Other times, a single guest discusses their work or
area of expertise with a host or co-hosts. A call-in show takes live phone calls from callers listening at
home, in their cars, etc. Sometimes, guests are already seated but are often
introduced and enter from backstage.
This text may contain
some information/topic with the guest stars. Here are some samples of the talk
show I have summarized;
Ø This text told about moderator and teacher
in the classroom
After presenter
introducing the guest she asks what makes moderators different from teachers in
a classroom? Mark McRae, is a lecturer at Manchester University answer that’s
online or not, there obviously are differences between them, that’s trying to
be funny. In computer conferencing is a dangerous business and often not very
successful. Why? When you’re just reading text, it’s much easier to
misunderstand. That’s not impossible, it’s just different. Online communication
can either be synchronous, like teachers, moderators will praise people or
point out to people where they may be going wrong. It’s very difficult to do
that online. That’s much easier to have misunderstandings when communication is
all text occasionally, flame each other. Flaming is what happens when one
person ‘attacks’ another person online. It doesn’t happen very often and, it’s
up to the moderator to set the rules for how people interact, and if someone
breaks those rules the moderator will talk to him or her privately and remind
them of how we should deal with each other. In fact, the aim of moderators is
to make the technology transparent, so people don’t notice it’s there. It’s
very different from the traditional classroom but there’s no reason why it
shouldn’t be just as effective, even more so for some people.
Ø This text told about hybrid car
In this recording the
presenter was talking with Linda who has been test-driving a hybrid car. Linda
spent three days last week trying it out. And presenter asks to Linda why that
is? Linda answered she had been thinking of buying one for some time
now. Why hybrid cars are produce fewer
emissions than conventional cars? Linda said she used to drive a conventional
Honda Civic, so I was interested in seeing if the hybrid car is similar. From
the outside it looks almost the same. And inside it’s very similar, until you
look at the instrument panel. The main difference was that it’s quieter, and
when you stop at traffic lights the petrol engine shuts down, so it’s completely
silent. not at all that cause a problem when start moving again, As soon as
start putting it into gear the engine instantly starts up again. She will
certainly consider buying one. The boot is smaller than a conventional Civic,
and it is more expensive. Based on her experience, for someone like her
it’s ideal.
Ø This text told about financial management
course
In this recording, the presenter talking with Richard
Manors, Chief financial officer of North London Concrete and she ask Ricard what effect on your
approach to management of the company? And Richard said that It changed to
different way of he looking at measuring business performance. And how does
that work in practice? Richard said you have to look at how the company’s cash
is deployed. And you need to know what’s happening to cash flow in the company.
When you’ve analyzed all this you can take action to improve performance. At
North London Concrete they launched a whole new integrated management system
aimed at improving cash flow. They tie the company’s bonus system, they
discovered that a lot of their cash was tied up in outstanding receivables; the
first target I set was to reduce receivables collection. They decided to set a
goal of reducing it to 35 days. To achieve this finance working on collections
and the sales department targeting customers who paid on time. Now they have
company’s cash flow situation is much healthier. Richard feels that he’s really
in the driver’s seat now. He knows how the company is doing and can see how to
improve performance.
In this semester I got a strategy in
listening, so I decided to apply that strategy for finish this project, exactly
to complete my summary. Before listening to the audio I want to know the
content beforehand, then predict the content of the audio. While listening to
the talk show I select what is important or useful things, then develop my own
note-taking style, for sooner comprehension I focusing myself on the audio, the
last while listening I don’t remember for some word that I lose. Finally, after
listening to the talk show the average of the three audio eight times I know
the talk show was talking about.
C. CONCLUSION
In conclusion, there are many ways to improve
listening comprehension. one of them is do more exercises in daily, search for
new materials and apply some strategies that can help. This is the example;
Ø Figure out the
purpose for listening. Activate background knowledge of the topic in order to
predict or anticipate content and identify appropriate listening strategies.
Ø Attend to the
parts of the listening input that are relevant to the identified purpose and
ignore the rest. This selectivity enables students to focus on specific items
in the input and reduces the amount of information they have to hold in
short-term memory in order to recognize it.
Ø Select top-down
and bottom-up strategies that are appropriate to the listening task and use
them flexibly and interactively. Students' comprehension improves and their
confidence increases when they use top-down and bottom-up strategies
simultaneously to construct meaning.
Ø Check comprehension while listening and when
the listening task is over. Monitoring comprehension helps students detect
inconsistencies and comprehension failures, directing them to use alternate
strategies.
Based on
the explanation above, I think if we do that all well, occasionally, our listening comprehension will be
improved.
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