This document summarizes an application called Listening Media Application that can be used for English language teaching. It discusses ICT and listening concepts, provides an overview of the listening media application including its creator and purpose. It also outlines the procedure for using the application, which involves creating dialogs with speakers' names, selecting voice models, recording and playback. Finally, it mentions some of the application's strengths like motivating students and helping pronunciation, and weaknesses such as limited voice models.

1. Listening Media Application in
English Language Teaching
Classroom
Afriando Terma Simanjuntak
Rizki Agung Pratama

2.  ICT
 Listening
 Listening Media Application
 The Procedure of Listening Media
Application
 The strengths and Weaknesses

3. ICT
 Basically information-handling tools-a varied set of goods, applications and
services that are used to produce, store, process, distribute and exchange
information (The United Nations Development Program, 2003)
 A diverse set of technological tools and resource used to communicate and to
create, disseminate, store and manage information. (Blurton, 1999)

4. Listening
 An active process in which the listener plays a very active part in
constructing the overall message that is eventually exchange between listener
and speaker. (Nicholas, 1998)
 The ability to identify and understand what others are saying (Saricorban,
1999)
 a process involving a continuum of active process, which is under control of
the listener, and passives processes, which are not” (Rost, 2002:7)

5. Listening Media Application
 The creator is Robianto, S.Pd. He is an alumnae of Purwokerto
Muhammadiyah University. He is a teacher in SMKN 1 Purwojati, Banyumas.
 a free and licensed application software program which is designed to help
students in learning listening easily.
 An interesting and easy application to use.
 A tool to help the students learn pronunciation.

7. No Explanation
1. Change the language (Bahasa to English and vice versa)
2 Separate the speaker’s name with colon
3 Blank box as a place to write the script
4 To choose existing dialogues
5 To choose the speaker’s name and voice model
6 Speed, pitch and silence
7 MP3 output consisting of quality and capacity
8 Boxes as their functions (new, delete, save text, listen, pause and save
audio)
9 Keyboard buttons as its own functions

8. The procedure of Listening Media
Application
 1. click the box ‘new’. Type the title you want and then OK
 2. Type your dialogue in the big blank box. Don’t forget to insert colon
between the speaker’s name and their text
 3. insert appropriate sound and command
 4. choose the speaker (Press F2) and voice model (press F3)
 5. control the speed, pitch and silence of the audio
 6. save the text by clicking ‘save text box’ on the left side and save the audio
by clicking the right side

9. The strengths and weaknesses
N o Strengths Weaknesses
1. Students become more motivated The voice models are limited
2. Students learn correct
pronunciation
The voice models are so flat
3. The mispronunciation can be
solved
Any song can not be inserted
4. The teacher or student does not
have to find partners
The students must put colon after the
speaker
5. It costs less money Some of voices models can not be
played