Improving Listening Comprehension among Malay Preschool Children Using Digital Stories

Introduction

Statement of Problem

Nearly all of the Research has concentrated on teenagers and adults

Only a small number of studies suggest that the Use of CBT is correlated to academic outcome.

the Internet-based technology and listening is scarce

Research Objectives

To find out digital stories improvements in the children's listening comprehesion skills

To verify significant differences between the mean scores of Experimental and Control groups

Findings

there was homogeneity of variances between the groups in the begining

No significant differences among groups initially

the mean score was lower in both groups

Literature Review

Visual, interactive and reiterative digital stories

actively involved in decoding

assist learning

understanding the story

help learners progressively learn the second language

benefits to improve children's reading comprehension

Reason for this situation

the CBT is underutilized

Malay teachers cannot afford of using or incorporating Internet materials

English Language Curriculum

Mininstry of Malaysian educaction aims

enabling preschool children to actively communicate

develop an enjoyment of the language through use of stories, rhymes, poems, songs and games

Listening and Speaking will consist of Verbal and Non-Verbal communication

The written language will be exposed to children through a variety of materials

Methodology

Research design

A quasi-experimental analysis was carried out at Penang, Malaysia for 6 weeks

The control and experimental groups were told the stories based on Teacher Instruction and the exploitation of the workbook

Sampling

50 children participated in it

two groups were selected

a control group and experimental group

two different English language teachers

Instrumentation

2 digital BBC website were used

children became more independent

techhers monitor them individually

Pre-test

to collect data

divided in two sections

Part 1. Knowledge of animals and colours

Part 2. Knowledge of number and animals

Post-test

to test children's progressive understanding of linguistic structure, vocabulary, sound patterns and prosody of the language

divided into two sections