USING DICTOGLOSS TECHNIQUE TO TEACH LISTENING COMPREHENSION FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

 

USING DICTOGLOSS TECHNIQUE TO TEACH LISTENING COMPREHENSION FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

by: Emha Fadhlil Huda
2014

Teaching listening is the process of activity in the classroom that should solve the problem in Listening systematically. Saha and Rezwan (2008) state that teaching listening requires a bit more on the part of the teacher than that of the learners. The purpose of listening is to make the students understand about the communication between two speakers. For the students it may be difficult to comprehend it because English is not their mother tongue.  If a listener does not understand what a speaker says so each of them has meaningless communication.  

Based on the problem, this article chooses dictogloss to be a technique to use in teaching listening. Wajnryb (1990) states that dictogloss is a classroom dictation activity where learners listen to a passage, note down key words and then work together to create a reconstructed version of the text. In dictogloss have four procedures those are warm-up which students find about the topic and do some vocabulary preparation, dictation in which the teacher either reads or plays the audio of the text three times at a normal speed, reconstruction in which the teacher asks students to reconstruct the text they have listened to base on their notes, and analysis and correction when students analyze and compare their text with the  reconstructions of other students and the original text and make the necessary corrections.

Dictogloss have many advantages that we can get from this technique. First, help the students develop all four language skills. Second, students develop their aural comprehension of meaning and also of relationship among segments language (grammar). Third, dictogloss also help students in note taking and helps to develop short-term memory.  The last is correcting dictogloss can lead to oral communication. So this article trusts with using dictogloss will make the research can accustom the students in listening activities.

In learning class the teacher, of course, needs to select an appropriate teaching material to the students and present an interactive teaching activities. It is important for the teacher prepares the teaching and learning activities to use appropriate technique in order to make learning effective and interesting. By using dictogloss as a technique in teaching listening activities, the teacher can give interesting information from the text by reading it to the students and ask them to listen it. The teacher not only teaches but also introduces an interesting and attractive story or information available from reconstruction the text.