The effectiveness of English audio scripts on practicing listening comprehension
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This research article examines to what extent L2 audio scripts
can improve L2 listening comprehension and whether using audio
scripts facilitates or interferes listening comprehension. The study was a
one-group pretest and posttest design, with 52 Thai EFL university
students who were required to practice listening comprehension with
English audio scripts outside the classroom for seven weeks prior to
taking the posttest. In completing the tests, they had to listen to ten
English sentences and write down in Thai what they heard and
understood about each of those sentences. Then the Thai equivalents
were analyzed to find out (1) which English words they corresponded
to, i.e. the students recognized them, (2) whether the words were
parsed correctly, and (3) to what extent the students understood the
aural texts. Results show that although a few times of practicing could
not enable the students to comprehend the whole ideas in the aural
texts, it could ease the perception phase by enhancing them to
recognize more English words at significant levels, and ease the parsing
phase to a lesser extent due to individual students’ different amount
of knowledge of the English language. Opinion survey results revealed
that the students found this listening practicing technique very
supportive and that the scripts did not interrupt the listening.
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