Lack of listening media for junior high schools in remote areas

Miftahul Auwaliyah

auwaliyahmiftahul957@gmail.com

Arilia Triyoga, M.Pd.B.I

ABSTARCT

Listening Media that is less significant in Junior High School. The purpose of study is to
know the listening media that was used in Junior High School in the remote areas, to get the
data from the study I did interview with the childrens in the school. After doing research
related listening media in the school, there is a progress or improvement for listening media
in Junior High School in remote area.

Keyword: Listening, Media, Remote Area

 INTRODUCTION

In the world of media education is a tool used to deliver a message to learners. The
media is a tool used by educators to convey messages or information to learners. Listening
Media is a media that greatly helps teachers in English studies in preparing the teaching
listening materials because teachers no longer need any difficulty in recording their own
voices manually. In addition to helping listening media teachers also assist students could
listen directly and would know how the english material is being broadcast using listening
media.The reason why I write this research is because the students in remote area often have
difficulty when learning english because they only listened to the teachers explanation
without being support by listening media. In almost every school in remote area for English
teaching is still using way to explain and listen to material and it’s very damaging for the
students.

There are still a lot of remote junior high schools that do not use media to listen when
learning English because of the lack of listening tools and why I do research in junior high
school because in remote areas learning listening is obtained when junior high school so if
not noticed the shortcomings associated with learning media the material obtained by the
students themselves will not be maximal and will have a negative impact when they
continue their education at the next level of education.

The often reality of a school in a remote area where the learning media is still very
foreign to the teaching process, so basically in an isolated area where media use is very poor
and with only a medium focused on educators, a chalhboard. Almost all school in a remote
areas use only blackboards and chalk getting to know other means still foreign to their ears
and eyes.The related media is related to the remote control of the solution, the solution is
not a difference between the isolated area and the large city. The goverment should provide
dana to advance remote school. Government is also supposed to channels self-quality
teachers areas, in addition, the goverment should give free education to less capable
children. I hope is that our education in Indonesia will grow and the childrens of Indonesia
will have a better education. In addition school in Indonesia can have a complete and
eduquate facility.
 Literature Review

A. Listening Media Explanation

Listening is receiving language through the ears, Listening involves identifying the
sounds of speech and processing them into words and sentences, when we listen we use
our ears to receive individual sounds (letters, stress, rhytm, and pauses) and we use our
brain to convert these into message that mean something to us.
Listening in any language requires focus and attention. it is a skill that some people need
to work at harder than others. People who have difficulty concentrating are typically
poor listeners. Listening in a second language requires even greater focus like babies,
we learn this skill by listening to people who already know how to speak the language.
Media is a formal well as a channel used in the process to present information media can
also mean something that delivers or transmits information between the source and
recipient. According to (Gerlach & Ely) the media in general is material or genesis that
can build up condition so that the students can gain knowledge, skill or attitude.
Listening media is a media that greatly helps teacher in English studies in preparing the
teaching listening material because teachers no longer need an difficulty in recording
their own voices manually. In addition to helping listening media, teacher also assist
students could listen directly and would know how the English material is being
broadcast using listening media.
Media can helps listening skill, media provides many benefits provided the teacher plays
an active role in the learning process. the relationship between teacher and student
remains the most important element in the modern education system today. the teacher
must be present to deliver material with the help of the media so that benefits can be
realized. Media is any tool that can be used as a channel message to achieve the learning
objectives for example is the use of audio media as a media tool whose content is only
received through the sense of hearing. audio media referred to here are sounds or sounds
related to the learning material recorded using a voice recorder then the results of the
recording are played back to the students using a rotary instrument.
B. Listening Class
Research shows that it is listening really listening to students that is critical to the
student/teacher relathionship. Knowing their teacher is interested in what they are saying
makes students fell cared for an emotionally connected to their school. Since research
shows that feeling connected is necessary for student motivation to learn, showing that
 teachers listen is important not only as a matter of kindness but also as a motivational
strategy.
C. Media in Listening Class
The media in listening class was the audio media that involved the sense of hearing so
that the process of listening occurred. Some step to consider in the use of media in
teaching and learning situations in or out of the classroom, namely teacher preparation,
teacher must have prepared the material that would be described in the next together
with the strategy. Class preparations became the next step conducted by teacher,
preparation considered was the completeness of the class and preparing students for task
in order to follow, record, analyze and critize. The next step was the teacher presented
media to be used in learning and applied the media as well as providing follow-up such
as discussion, reports and other assignment
 Research Method

 Explanation
In remote schools, the media for listening is incomplete because students in remote area
often have difficulty when learning English because they only listened to the teachers
explanation without being support by listening media. many schools in remote areas are
less attentive and unreachable by the government, the media is the teachers themselves,
so students listen to the teacher's explanation without being helped by listening methods
is dictation. the teacher explained carefully and explained again and the students listened
attentively. In almost every school in remote area for English teaching is still using way
to explain and listen to material and it’s very damaging for the students.
The often reality of a school in a remote area where the learning media is still very
foreign to the teaching process, so basically in an isolated area where media use is very
poor and with only a medium focused on educators, a chalh board. Almost all school in
a remote areas use only blackboards and chalk getting to know other means still foreign
to their ears and eyes. The related media is related to the remote control of the solution,
the solution is not a difference between the isolated area and the large city. The
Goverment should provide dana to advance remote school. Government is also supposed
to channels self-quality teachers areas, in addition, the goverment should give free
education to less capable children.

 Type of Research
I choose Qualitative research method for my research. Qualitative research is especially
effective in obtaining culturally specific information about the values, opinions,
behaviors, and social contexts of particular populations.
What can we learn from qualitative research? The strength of qualitative research is its
ability to provide complex textual descriptions of how people experience a given
research issue. It provides information about the “human” side of an issue – that is, the
often contradictory behaviors, beliefs, opinions, emotions, and relationships of
individuals. Qualitative methods are also effective in identifying intangible factors, such
as social norms, socioeconomic status, gender roles, ethnicity, and religion, whose role
in the research issue may not be readily apparent. When used along with quantitative
methods, qualitative research can help us to interpret and better understand the complex
reality of a given situation and the implications of quantitative data.
Although findings from qualitative data can often be extended to people with
characteristics similar to those in the study population, gaining a rich and complex
understanding of a specific social context or phenomenon typically takes precedence
over eliciting data that can be generalized to other geographical areas or populations. In
this sense, qualitative research differs slightly from scientific research in general.
What are some qualitative research methods? The three most common qualitative
methods, explained in detail in their respective modules, are participant observation, in-
depth interviews, and focus groups. Each method is particularly suited for obtaining a
specific type of data.
a. Participant observation is appropriate for collecting data on naturally occurring
behaviors in their usual contexts.
b. In-depth interviews are optimal for collecting data on histories, per- spectives,
and experiences, particularly when sensitive topics are being explored.
c. Focus groups are effective in eliciting data on the cultural norms of a group and
in generat- ing broad overviews of issues of concern to the cultural groups or
subgroups represented.
What forms do qualitative data take? The types of data these three methods generate are
field notes, audio (and sometimes video) recordings, and transcripts.

 How I get the data?

related to how I got the data, I conducted interviews with several students in remote
schools, by interviewing students in several schools I learned that there were still many
schools in remote areas that desperately needed media for listening as assistance in
English lessons.
 Review on Related Study

Listening has an important role both in daily life and in academic contexts as it is crucial
for people to sustain effective communication. In spite of the importance of listening in
the development of the communicative and cognitive skills, it did not start to take its
place in language teaching curriculum for long years. However, in recent years, with the
emphasis given in communication in language teaching, listening started to take its long
deserved place in language programs.
Listening plays an important role in communication in people’s daily lives. As Guo and
Wills (2006) state “it is the medium through which people gain a large proportion of
their education, their information, their understanding of the world and human affairs,
their ideals, sense of values”. According to Mendelson (1994) “of the total time spent
on communicating, listening takes up 40-50 %; speaking 25-30 %; reading 11-16 %; and
writing about 9 %”. Emphasizing the importance of listening in language learning,
Peterson (2001) states that “no other type of language input is easy to process as spoken
language, received through listening, learners can build an awareness of the
interworkings of language systems at various levels and thus establish a base for more
fluent productive skills”. Listening has an important role not only in daily life but also
in classroom settings. Anderson and Lynch (2003) state that “we only become aware of
what remarkable feats of listening we achieve when we are in an unfamiliar listening
environment, such as listening to a language in which we have limited proficiency”.
Most people think that being able to write and speak in a second language means that
they know the language; however, if they do not have the efficient listening skills, it is
not possible to communicate effectively. That is, listening is the basic skill in language
learning and over 50% of the time that students spend functioning in a foreign language
will be devoted to listening (Nunan, 1998). Rost (1994) explains the importance of
listening in language classroom as follows:
1) Listening is vital in the language classroom because it provides input for the
learner. Without understanding input at the right level, any learning simply
cannot begin.
2) Spoken language provides a means of interaction for the learner. Because
learners must interact to achieve understanding. Access to speakers of the
language is essential. Moreover, learners’ failure to understand the language
they hear is an impetus, not an obstacle, to interaction and learning.
 3) Authentic spoken language presents a challenge for the learner to understand
language as native speakers actually use it.
4) Listening exercises provide teachers with a means for drawing learners’
attention to new forms (vocabulary, grammar, new interaction patterns) in the
language.
To summarize, listening has an important role both in daily life and in academic
contexts as it is crucial for people to sustain effective communication. Emphasizing the
importance of listening, Anderson and Lynch (2003) state that listening skills are as
important as speaking skills because people cannot communicate face-to-face unless
both types of skills are developed together. Listening skills are also important for
learning purposes since through listening students receive information and gain insights
(Wallace, Stariha & Walberg, 2004).
 Finding And Discussion
In this study I found there are so many Junior High School in remote areas less focused
places than the government. The students in remote area often have difficulty when
learning English because they only listened to the teachers explanation without being
support by listening media. In almost every school in remote area for English teaching is
still using way to explain and listen to material and it’s very damaging for the student.
The solution is the government should provide to advance remote school. Government
is also supposed to channels self-quality teachers.

Conclusion and Suggestion

 Conclusion
as a teacher we must be able and ready in any situation because the teacher plays a very
important role in the learning process. when we are assigned in remote areas the teacher
must be able to master every material that will be taught and he must be able to become
a speaker as well as a medium to deliver the material. if the teacher can master the
material well without being supported by other media it will have a very important
influence on students 'understanding because students' understanding is also related to
the teacher's teaching ability.
 Suggestion
1. For Student
For students to keep up the spirit and learn well even though there are many
shortcomings to complement the learning.
2. For Teacher
as teachers we must be able and ready because teachers play a very important role in
the learning process, teachers must be patient and try their best to make material that
can make students understand easily because of the lack of learning media in remote
areas.
3. For School
I hope that schools pay more attention to the learning process in schools and the
needs of students in the learning process related to this. It is expected that the school
will give action to achieve effective and efficient learning and be suitable for those
students.
4. For Government
The government is expected to give more attention to schools in remote areas related
to the lack of learning media in remote schools. the government must also be fair not
only to take care of and provide the best facilities for schools in big city cities but
also must pay attention to schools in remote areas.
 REFERENCES

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/07/25/how-is-ai-used-in-education-
real-world-examples-of-today-and-a-peek-into-the-future

https://www.nap.edu/read/9853/chapter/13

https://www.englishclub.com/listening/what.htm

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-important-media-remote-areas.html

https://www.questionpro.com/blog/qualitative-research-methods/
 THE RESULT OF INTERVIEW

1. Since when did you start getting english lessons?

2. Do you think the learning media at your school is adequate?
3. What difficulties do you face related to the lack of learning media for listening?
4. Do the teachers in your school make every effort to master the material because
of the lack of media for listening?

Responding