Mini Research Proposal
Mini Research Proposal
Mini Research Proposal
by
NIM : 21403064
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
2023
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
The undeniable role of English as a global means of communication can be the reason
that English is accommodated as one of the subjects taught at school. English is used as a
foreign language especially in Indonesia, it must be studied in order to master and develop the
knowledge, technology, arts, and to create a good relationship with other countries. Listening
is considered as the most basic skill because it is firstly used by learners when they begin to
learn a language, especially spoken language. Listening as one of the English language skills
is the receptive skill which is the most common communication activity in daily life.
Furthermore, listening has an important role in learning and teaching activity, because learners
should listen to what teacher says in order to involve in learning and teaching activity process.
Although many researches explained that listening which has a role important in learning
should be taught, there is still a lot of students who are poor in listening. Most of learners get
hard to comprehend when learners learn listening. There were some problems when students
learn listening. For example, the students cannot interpret well spoken English words, phrases
and sentences. The students also had a problem to recognize the different accent and identify
spoken English words and sentences in high speed. A lot of varities in accent also can cause a
problem for students in listening. For EFL, English is not the dominan language and they have
very few opportunities to hear the real language from native speakers. Another problems is
students are less motivated to do listening. Some of them feel that listening is a bored activity,
To overcome those problems, it is important for the teacher to find a new strategy in the
listening teaching to help the students to be more active in the learning process. There are
many kinds of strategies in teaching listening. One of them is using podcasts. Using podcast
in listening instruction is one of the techniques which involve technologies. Podcasts are
created by former MTV VJ Adam Curry. Many podcasts are found on the internet, such as
television podcasts, radio podcasts, classroom podcasts, and group podcasts. Podcast is a
digital audio file which can be downloaded by everyone to computer, laptop, and handphone
so that, it can be easily used by teachers in listening instruction. It is also provides some audio
files in various categories, languages, and level. Podcasts offer simple language and authentic
material for the learners. To use podcast is the right technique in teaching listening, because
it can enrich the quality of learning. Students are expected to be more interested in having
listening class by using podcast. Therefore, the researcher will choose the use of podcast as a
Based on the background of the study the researcher identifies some problems as follow:
1) The students cannot interpret the meaning of spoken English because they are lack of
vocabulary.
2) The students cannot recognize the accent and the sound in the high speed because they are
1) What are the causes of students who are not good at listening?
The purpose of this study is to find out whether there is any significant influence of using
LITERATURE REVIEW
The influence of using podcast to improve students’ listening skill had been conducted
i. Islam Namazian Dost, Glasser Bohloulzadeh and Rezvan Rahmatollahi, with title “The
EFL Learners”. In this research they tried to explore the effects of using podcast on
participants of this study were chosen non-randomly then they were divided into two
ii. Galina Kavaliauskienė and Lilija Anusienė from Mykolas Romeris Univerity,
Lithuanie, with title “English for Specific Purposes: Podcasts for Listening Skills”. The
participants of this study were the 1st year full-time students of two different
specializations who studied English for Specific Purposes at the Faculty of Social
Policy.
iii. Rengganis Siwi Amumpuni from IKIP PGRI Madiun, with title “The Implementation
Madiun”. This research aimed to describe the process, the problems and solutions of
iv. Research conducted by Chen et al. (2017) showed that regular use of podcasts can
related to the topics discussed in the podcast. The results of this study showed that
Based on previously those researches above, the researcher interest to do this research to
know the influence of using podcast to improve students’ listening skill. The researchers
wanted to explain the students’ effectiveness, perception, and experiences in learning listening
by using podcast as a media. The similarities among my research and the other researchers is
by using Podcast as a media to improve students’ listening skill. Then, the differences of my
research and those researches are the research method. My research use qualitative method
while other researchers use quantitative method. Those researches are also had different
purpose and aimed with the research conducted by the researcher. The purpose of this study
is to find out whether there is any significant influence of using podcast to improve students’
listening skill. This research was focused on observing the influence of using podcast on
METHODOLOGY
The research method that will be used in this research is descriptive qualitative method,
because the purpose of this research is to analyze the influence of using podcasts in improving
students' listening skills. Qualitative research is a research method used to investigate, explore,
examine a problem in research, and find answers to these problems based on the results of the
data.
The subjects of this study are students of the Department of English Education at Manado
State University. The object of this research is the influence of using podcasts in improving
3.3 Participants
The participants in this study are students of Manado State University, Department of
To get the data, the researcher will use interview. The interview questions are open-ended
questions that contain the influence of using podcasts in students' listening lesson. One
listening when using podcast as a media in learning process. In interview the researcher will
use individual interview or it can be called one-on-one interviews. In obtaining the interview,
the researcher will use a recorder from Handphone in order to help the researcher to analyze
the data research. By using recorder, the researcher could be more suitable to in interview
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Amumpuni, Rengganis Siwi. The Implementation of Podcast in Teaching Listening at the First
Brent, Rebecca., & Anderson, Patricia. Developing Children's Classroom Listening Strategies. The
Erben, Tony., Ban, Ruth., & Castaneda, Martha. 2009. Teaching English Language Learner
Farshi, N., & Mohammadi, Z. (2013). Use of podcasts in effective teaching of vocabulary: learners'