Teaching Listening of University Level through Online Learning System: A Case Study

Abstract

Listening is the most important part of communication because we can understand to speak, read and write through listening first. As an input skill, listening plays a crucial role in students’ language development. Accordingly, teaching listening becomes an important thing for students as well. Recently, the teaching and learning process should conduct by online learning. It was definitely not easy to make such kind of online learning for listening class with a sudden preparation. This study aimed to provide broader insight about teaching listening process through online learning and all of its aspects such as planning, ways of teaching, and assessments of listening skill conducted by the listening lecturer of second-semester of English Education Department of University of Islam Malang. For research design, this study used a case study method. The researcher chose one of the senior listening lecturers of University of Islam Malang who had a good quality in teaching listening. Additionally, to obtain the data, the researcher used observation sheet and interview as the main instruments, and some supportive instruments such as field notes, and documents. To ensure the data trustworthiness, triangulation was conducted by doing five times observations, and an interview of lecturer. Eight interviews of the students and some documents were selected as the supportive documents. After analyzing the data, the finding of the study was indicated that the observed lecturer used some certain platforms to maximize the teaching listening through online learning system. The observed lecturer also divided the activities into three steps, namely in pre-, while-, and post-listening activities and implemented various activities to the students either using Google Classroom or Zoom. The researcher found out that the observed lecturer applied meta-cognitive strategy in teaching listening through online learning. Moreover, the lecturer also did summative and formative assessment in teaching listening online. Based on the findings of the study, the present study was conducted in limited scope and areas, and it certainly consists of several limitations in its data. It is strongly demanded further exploration and investigation about teaching listening can be examined deeply in other research in future researchers. In this case, the suggestions were addressed to the lecturer for considering the strategy used in teaching listening especially in online learning. It was also needed to apply interactive and interesting activities for the students in order to enhance students' motivation in learning listening. Key Words: Teaching Listening, Online Learning System