Teaching Listening by Using One Direction Video in Junior High School.
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Abstract
The purpose of writing this paper is to describe teaching listening by using One Direction. It is one of media that the teacher use in teaching learning process especially in teaching listening. Listening is one of the language skills and English that is aimed to improve students’ ability to understand English. Listening is difficult for the students because they do not use English in daily activity and they do not usually hear English outside of the classroom. So the teacher has to be creative to find listening materials that the student are interested in. By using One Direction video, the students are intrisincally motivated as the material itself and the video interesting for the students. In this way, the students are expected to be able to learn listening based on the video given by their teacher. Before the class begin, the teacher introduces the title of the video and play on the DVD player. After that, the teacher asks the students to listen to it carefully and the teacher gives them some questions that are relating to the content of the listening and the teacher also asks the students to fill in the blanks while they are listening to the video. Video activity above helps the students to learn listening better.
Key Words : Teaching listening, One Direction video, and DVD player.