THE EFFICIENCY OF MEDIA IN TEACHING ESL LISTENING SKILLS

Abstract

The rapid growth in computer technology among linguists and literary researchers has opened up the way for the introduction of computers into language teaching and learning. The Internet has the potential to provide a new learning environment that has rich digital, textual, graphic, audio, and video features for the language learning approach. Technology is useful for teaching listening because each type of technology provides opportunities for students to expand their ranges of listening strategies. The aim of the paper is to investigate the efficiency of various kinds of media (audio, video and multimedia) in teaching listening skills in particular in an ESP classroom. The participants of this study were one hundred and twenty first year students from the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Bitola, North Macedonia. Straightforward Quick Placement & Diagnostic- English language proficiency test and listening tests – designed by the researcher were used as instruments of this study. The results revealed that there was a strong positive significant correlation between multimedia and the learners’ listening comprehension ability.