DINAMIKA ILMU - Vol. 16 No. 1 - Phonetic Symbols through Audiolingual Method to Improve the Students’ Listening Skill

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Phonetic symbols provide clear linguistics cues for how words are pronounced and spelled, enabling students to recognize and interpret English input more accurately. The study applies phonetic symbols within the audiolingual method to deliver repeated practice, memorization, and audio-based drills. Classroom Action Research (CAR) uses observation and testing to assess listening improvement. Results show increased participation in identifying spoken words by phonetic symbols, and test outcomes where 30 of 40 students reached the passing grade, meeting a 75% success target.

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Abstract

A. Introduction

B. Literature Review

DINAMIKA ILMU Vol. 16 No. 1, 2016 P-ISSN: 1411-3031; E-ISSN: 2442-9651 Phonetic Symbols through Audiolingual Method to Improve the Students’ Listening Skill Zuhrotun Samawiyah MAN Rejoso Peterongan Jombang Muhammad Saifuddin Unipdu Jombang Komplek Pond. Pest. Darul ‘Ulum Peterongan Jombang, East Java [saifuddin.unipdu@gmail.com](saifuddin.unipdu@gmail.com) Abstract Phonetic symbols present linguistics feature to how the words are pronounced or spelled and they offer a way to easily identify and recognize the words. Phonetic symbols were applied in this research to give the students clear input and a comprehension toward English words. Moreover, these phonetic symbols were applied within audio-lingual method which provided repetitions, memorizations, and drills through audio media. This research used Classroom Action Research (CAR) design. The objective of this research was to improve the students’ listening skill through phonetic symbols applied within audiolingual method. The instruments used were observation and test. The result showed that the students were encouraged to identify spoken words based on phonetic symbols. They were able to differentiate phonetic symbols used that helped them to identify words on spoken text. Meanwhile, the result of test showed that there were 30 students of 40 students who achieved the passing grade, 75. The percentage of students’ achievement test met the target of this research success that was 75% of the students got score ≥ 75. As the target of the research was successfully done that it showed to the students’ improvement, this CAR was able to improve the students listening skill. Keywords: phonetic symbol, listening skill, audio-lingual method A. Introduction Listening is part of an activity of hearing or listening spoken words. During its process, both speaker and listener are engaged in the communication directly. To build such good communication, the listeners are not only listening but also intend to grab the meaning. In this case, listeners’ understanding is measured based upon how well they understand what the speaker says. As it requires the listeners to actively understand every single word, listening posits active process. Indeed, it shows that there is a participation which involves the listeners to actively listen to the speaker (Rost, 1991, p. 1) . The process of communication involves the speaker and listener where the speakers intend to convey what they think meanwhile the listeners are intentionally and actively listen to grab the meaning of the utterance. Listening is one of language skill taught to the students as they are required to master the four skills. Besides, listening is a rather mechanical process in which listeners (Vandergrift & Goh, 2012, p. 18) construct meaning by based on individual sound, language intonation of the target language and building meaning from phonemes to words to larger units of meaning. It means that listening can be a complex skill in some ways that it is not the way to listen but it is to understand and comprehend the meaning through signals. Looking at this, some students may feel that they encounter some difficulties in listening. One of the objectives of teaching English at junior high school is enable the students to develop their communication abilities both in oral and written form to achieve functional literacy level (Permendiknas, 2006) . The communication abilities involve their English skills to be implemented which can be both oral communication and written communication. Listening can be often referred to oral communication. It is because listening invites the students to learn and develop their oral skill. However, it does not mean that oral ability is only speaking skill but it is also listening skill. In a communication, there is an active process which involves the speaker and the hearer interacts to each other. It is because both of speaker and hearer have intention to contribute the meaning

FAQs

What is the purpose of using phonetic symbols in this research?

The research aims to provide students with clear input so they can better comprehend and recognize how English words are pronounced or spelled using phonetic symbols.

How does the audiolingual method support the listening skill improvement?

The audiolingual method is applied through repetition, memorization, and drills using audio media to encourage students to identify spoken words.

What were the research results for students’ listening performance?

Test results show 30 of 40 students achieved the passing grade (≥ 75), reaching the target success rate of 75%.

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