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Improving Student’d Listening Comprehension by Teaching Connected Speech

By Yuliar Masna
Khairil Razali
Siti Musfirah

The result of student's response sheets indicate that students have positive perception
toward the teaching connected speech and it can increase their interest in learning listening.

There are many students have a variety of problems listening comprehension. It's
obtacles in listening are understanding and recognizingthe words, understanding rapid speech
and typical native speaker including connected speech features like elision, assimilation, weak
form, construction, and intrusion. Especially, it is hard to understand what the speakers said
because they will connect one word/phrase to another in which the sounds will dissapear or be
changed by the surrounding sounds and sometimes they speak in chunks.

It is important to introduce and teach connected speech or reduced forms to the English
ad a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. It is because many studies showed that teaching
connected speech can help students understand the speech with fast delivery (e.g., Brown &
Hilferty, 2006; Celce-Murcia, Brinton & Goodwin, 1996; Matsuzawa, 2006) as cited in Ashtiani
and Zafarghandi, 2015).

The Listening requires a lot of concentration in order to gain information from the
speaker. While the listener needs a deep understanding to comprehend the meaning of the
information conveyed by the speaker. Thus, listening comprehesion is the activity to interpret the
meaning of the spoken mesage in order to get the information from the speaker and the listener
gives feedback or response to the spoker.

The Connected speech is a process of a word that is concatenated with other words in one
breath. It occurs unconsciously to a native speaker and they are often unaware of these processes
as they use it whether it is in the formal context or even informal context, far or slow.
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Student’s Motivation and Responsive Pedagogy in Language Classroom

By Syarifah Dahliana

Student's motivation offer to the successful teaching learning process as it determines self-
engagement and participations in the classroom. Giving someone support student's motivation,
then becomes important for the teacher to achieve the teaching goal and to provide a meaningful
learning process for the students.

The teacher's competency in creating a conducive environtment and leading an interactive

communication arethe ways of the teacher affect student's motivation in learning process. To sum
up, a suitable teaching strategy and classroom management are crucial to help students be
motivated to learn the language in order to reach proficiency. Circumstances inside and outside
the classroom may affect the student's motivation, but the ways of the teacher handles the
classroom and interacts with the students also have a great impact to motivate the student's
engagement in learning.

Motivation is related to the purpose of human life, and the interst, motive which lead
people to hold their attention of something, including in learning.

There are 2 factors of motivation learning. The first is personal factors or internal factors.
It is including needs, interest and curiousity. Then, the environmental factors or external factors.
Such as rewards, social pressure, punishment are seen as two factors that influence human
motivation (Wolkfolk, 2007, p.373).

There are two types of motivation based on those factors. The intrinsic motivation refers
to the motives that come directly from inside the person, not because of pressures from others or
the environtment. And the extrinsic motivation refers to the motivation which is influenced by
external factors, such as parents, friends, teachers, rewards and so forth. Intrinsic motivatiob
need to be encouraged and extrinsic motivation can be used to support learning proccess.
 There are two aspect bringing students to engage and parcipate in learning activities,
namely classroom activity and teacher's communicative style. The use of various activities and
environments need to be maximized not onlyto accomodate the differences of student's learning
preferences and personality but also to lesson the boredom. Teacher's communication style also
influences student's willingness to participate in classroom activities. Supportive, open-minded,
creative, warm and friendly behaviour becomes some teacher's characteristic that need to be
developed in the classroom. Moreover, a comfortable classroom environment is also key very
important to encourage student's motivation to participate.