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USING SPOTIFY IN TEACHING LISTENING Julia – 180101030210 [email protected] Abstract This paper aims to give new ideas in teaching listening through Spotify. The growth of smartphone make people can bring their podcast every moment. The new way to listen a podcast and play millions of podcasts i...

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USING SPOTIFY IN TEACHING LISTENING Julia – 180101030210 [email protected] Abstract This paper aims to give new ideas in teaching listening through Spotify. The growth of smartphone make people can bring their podcast every moment. The new way to listen a podcast and play millions of podcasts is with Spotify. Spotify is a digital music, podcast, and video streaming service that can be accessed to millions of music, podcast and other content from artists all over the world. It is one of the multimedia applications that also can be used to teach listening. This paper also discusses how a teacher use and implement the Spotify application in an interesting teaching and learning process. Many researchers believe that the Spotify application is very beneficial to increase students’ English listening skills. Listening with the Spotify application is very easy to use anywhere and anytime by the teachers and also the students according to today’s condition which makes everyone cannot be dissociated from their smartphone. Therefore, this Spotify application was published to make everyone easier to find podcast that they want because all genres of podcast are available in the Spotify. In this case, a teacher can provide authentic media in teaching and learning process through the Spotify application. The result of study indicates that the use of Spotify in listening class will make students more likely for having high interest in listening class. Keywords: Spotify, Songs, English Listening Skill A. Introduction The method of English language teaching has been considerably changed due to the entry of technology. Technology offers a lot of benefits as making teaching interesting and more productive in terms of advancements. The use of technology helps learners get involved and learn based on their interests. It has been extensively accepted for teaching English in the modern world. Graddol (1997) said that technology is the center of the globalization process and impacts education and culture. Lam & Lawrence (2002) also expressed that technology helps learners to regulate their own learning process and have access to many information that their teachers cannot provide. Technologies are increasingly widespread, impacting many aspects of our social and work lives, and many of our leisure activities. Many researchers stated that technology can be used as an instructional tool in teaching and learning skills. Furthermore, all of these researchers unanimously agreed that technology helps teachers improve their teaching methods and learners increase their knowledge. When using technology, learners not only control their own learning process, but also have access to further information over which their teachers cannot control. Technology plays a key role in promoting appropriate activities for learners and has a significant impact on teachers’ teaching methods in their classes. Technological advancements 1 | Page

have gone hand-in-hand with the development of English and are changing the way in which we communicate. If we ignore technological developments in our classes we will never be able to keep up with these technologies. Therefore, it is very important for teachers to be aware of the latest equipment and to have a full knowledge of these technologies in different situations. There are different reasons why all learners and teachers should know how to use the new technologies. In this paper, the writer will examine some of the important issues related to the use of Spotify in Teaching listening. These issues are as follows: the meaning of listening, the procedure of teaching listening, the procedure of teaching listening, the nature of Spotify, the implementation of the Spotify to the Listening and some examples. B. Literature Review 1. Skill Understanding a. The Meaning of Listening Listening skill is key to receiving messages effectively. It is a combination of hearing what another person says and psychological involvement with the person who is talking. Listening is a skill of Language. It requires a desire to understand another human being, an attitude of respect and acceptance, and a willingness to open one's mind to try and see things from another's point of view. It requires a high level of concentration and energy. It demands that we set aside our own thoughts and agendas, put ourselves in another's shoes and try to see the world through that person's eyes. Listening is the ability to identify and understand what others are saying. According to (Brown, 2000) Listening is not a one-way street, it is not merely the process of a unidirectional receiving of audible symbols. It means, listening is an active process of converting meaning from spoken language. It can be said that listening is more than merely hearing, but there is an active process inside the brain. As (Nunan, 2004) have stated that listening is an active, purposeful process of making sense of what we hear. It means that listening is the very first language skill before people are able to speak, read, and write. b. The Procedure of Teaching Listening The procedure of teaching listening divided into three stages as pre-listening, while-listening and post-listening and each of the three stages has its own specific purpose (Underwood, 1989). In pre-listening activities, teachers help to hear and give some clues about the activity expectations mostly by activating schemata. It can help students to predict what they will hear. Teachers can use realia in activating schemata, 2 | Page

for example a photo, a map, a brochure or any other object related to the listening text make students activate their prior knowledge and help them better understand the listening (Wilson, 2008). While-listening activities are the main activities of the listening tasks. Students listen to the input and make decisions about the strategy to use according to the requirements of the task. According to (Underwood, 1989) the goal of while-listening tasks as being something that helps the learners understand the message of the listening text. An example to while-listening activity is “bingo”. This activity is especially enjoyable for young learners. In this task the teacher writes a list of words on the board, which are included in the listening text. The students individually select and write seven words on a piece of paper. Then, they listen to the passage and put a ticked, they shout “bingo”. It is a good activity for selective listening even if it hinders listening extensively (Wilson, 2008). In the post-listening stage, students work in detail applying both top-down and bottom-up strategies to link up the classroom activities and their real lives (Wilson, 2008).

Post-listening tasks may be directly related to the pre and while-

listening activities or they can just be loosely related to these activities. Furthermore, “checking and summarizing” is one activity type that can be performed as postlistening task. In this activity, first the teacher puts students into small groups to lower individual speaking anxiety. The teacher’s role, here, is to monitor students and to stimulate them by attracting their attention to the related and interesting points. Then, they share their ideas as a class and then students can summarize the important parts. 2. The Nature of Spotify a. Understanding of Spotify Spotify is a digital music, podcast, and video streaming service that gives you access to millions of songs and other content from artists all over the world. Basic functions such as playing music are totally free, but we can also choose to upgrade to Spotify Premium. The premium service, however, is completely ad free. Spotify is available across a range of devices, including computers, phones, tablets, speakers, TVs, and cars, and we can easily transition from one to another with Spotify Connect. Spotify was founded in 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Daniel Ek, former CTO of Stardoll, and Martin Lorentzon, co-founder of Tradedoubler. According to Ek, the

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company’s title was initially misheard from a name shouted by Lorentzon. Later they thought out an etymology of a combination of “spot” and “identify”. b. Basic Features of Spotify Getting started with listening to music on Spotify is easy: 

Videos, watch music videos, documentaries, and exclusive video series, all from within the Spotify application. The first one tap search and enter the title of a video show or episode. Next, tap an episode to begin watching. Finally, tap now playing to watch the video and see play controls. (it is only for Spotify Premium).

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Podcasts and shows, listen to your favorite podcasts, and discover many more including shows with music. First, tap search. Then, under browse all, tap Podcasts & Shows. Next, browse featured episodes, or scroll down to browse by category. The last, select a podcast or show to view its page and all available episodes.

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Spotify Radio, keep the mood going. Spotify Radio creates a collection of songs based on any artist, album, playlist, or song of your choice. It even updates over time to keep fresh. Firstly, go to any artist, album, playlist, or song. After that select triple dot and go to radio.

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View lyrics, you can get some lyrics plus the story behind the song with Spotify and Genius. First, start playing music. Next, tap the now playing bar at the bottom of the screen. Finally, scroll down to see the song’s lyrics and their story.

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Download music and podcasts, if you have Premium, you can download your favorite songs, albums, playlists, and podcasts, so you can listen them without an internet connection. The firs, go to the playlist, album, or podcast you want to download. Then, tap icon download. Finally, a green arrow indicates the download was successful.

3. The implementation of the Spotify to the Listening Listening English song can enhance the listening skill because song is one of the media that interesting to improve listening skill. Thus, Spotify application give some facilities to students to learn listening easily because this is music streaming supplication that provide recording and also the lyrics so the student can enhance their listening through this application. The lyrics of this application can make the learner easier when they listen to the music because they can listen while they read the lyrics. It can also make 4 | Page

them easier find the new vocabularies. Listening music through this application also some interesting way to the learner because in this application the learner can choose genre music that they want or they like. Learning by something that are like is the most effective way. C. Discussion 1. Sample of Material I want to teach the 9th grade students of Junior high school and the material is verb “Go” + Gerund (Ing) in the Spotify. I will ask students to listen, interpret, and make one sentence that related the material.

Link website: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Ho40vGRdmxKv4nqYnmbQN

2. Teaching Procedure The procedure to use Spotify application to improve the students’ listening skill based on the sample material: 

Opening activity. The teacher opening the lesson, doing apperception, and then introduce Spotify application to students.

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In while activity, the teacher wants the students to find the application in their phone or teacher can share the link of Spotify application to students can access easily. Then, the teacher asks students to listen the podcast in Spotify. Next, the teacher asks students to write whatever their have listened. After that, teacher explains what difficult vocabularies and give students opportunities to ask.

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Closing activity, the teacher and students conclude the materials that have been studied, the teacher also give assignment for students. They are closing the lesson by praying together.

D. Conclusion and Recommendation The writer concludes that the use of Spotify in listening class could be implemented to increase student’s interest during the learning process. The students like listening podcast to improve their interest in listening class because it indirectly trains the students’ skill, they can enjoy the activities, and it makes them do not feel bored also easier to understand the material. The use of the Spotify also be chosen to improve students’ ability compared to other methods because it will make them earn a lot of new vocabulary through learning activities in a fun way. Some suggestions for teachers are in the beginning, it will be much better for using slow podcast especially for listener in beginning level and the use of the Spotify should be more various in terms of duration, method, and the genre of podcast that be used to accommodate every student learning style so that they will achieve the maximum learning result. E. References Brown, D. 2000. Teaching by Principles. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Graddol, D. 1997. The future of English? A guide to forecasting the popularity of the English language in the 21st century. The British Council, Vol. 29. Retrieved from https://doanbangoc.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/the-future-of-english.pdf Lam, Y., & Lawrence, G. 2002. Teacher-student role redefinition during a computer-based second language project: Are computers catalysts for empowering change? Computer Assisted

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