Septiana Citra Fridayani

1. THE IMPLICATIONS OF FOOTBALL
COMMENTARY IN LISTENING
COMPREHENSION OF ENGLISH
LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY
PROGRAM (ELESP) STUDENTS
FOCUSING ON SPECIFIC INFORMATION
Septiana Citra Fridayani
septiana.fridayani@gmail.com
Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta

3. INTRODUCTION
• Football commentary uses
special terms
• Listening comprehension
belongs to one of the subjects
learnt by students of ELESP
BACKGROUND
• To find out the implications of
football commentary dealing
with listening comprehension
for specific
information, especially for EFL
learners
PURPOSE

4. REVIEW OF LITERATURE (1)
Holmes (1992), as cited by Noertjahyanto (2001),
mentions, “Registers tend to be associated with
particular groups of people or sometimes specific
situation of use. In giving the examples, Holmes gives
the sport announcer talk or what we call sport
commentaries.”
The function of football
commentary according to Beard
(1998) is to “clarify or describe
what is happening in the field”
(Noertjahyanto, 2001).

5. REVIEW OF LITERATURE (2)
The language used in football
commentary is different from daily
conversation, particularly the
vocabulary (Holmes, 2001, p. 152).
In 1995, Trudgill suggests, “Whenever we speak, we
cannot avoid giving our listeners clues about our
origins and the sort of person we are. Our accent and
our speech generally show where we come from, and
what sort of background we have” (Wray et al., 2004,
p. 88).

6. REVIEW OF LITERATURE (3)
Buck (2001) revealed that
Listening comprehension is the result of an
interaction between a number of
information sources, which include the
acoustic input, different types of linguistic
knowledge, details of the context, and
general world knowledge, and so forth, and
listeners use whatever information they
have available, or whatever information
seems relevant to help them interpret what
the speaker is saying. (Mewald, Gassner, &
Sigott, 2007, p. 5)

7. METHODOLOGY
The
Samples
The
Procedures
The
Materials

8. The Samples
7
males
1
female
8
students
of ELESP

9. The Materials
Questionnaires
Personal Identity
Participants’ Knowledge of
Football Commentary
10 Questions
Close-ended Open-ended

10. The Procedures
Survey Research
The questionnaires were
given on May 2012
(via e-mail and manually
filled by handwriting)

11. FINDINGS & DISCUSSION (1)
10 Questions
General Knowledge of
Football
General and Specific Knowledge
of Football Commentary
Participant’s Opinions Related to
the Implications of Football
Commentary

12. FINDINGS & DISCUSSION (2)
88%
12%
0% 0%0%
Favorite Football Leagues of the
Participants
English Premier League
Serie A
BBVA League (La Liga)
Bundesliga
Other
Figure 1. General Knowledge of Football

13. FINDINGS & DISCUSSION (3)
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Yes No
NumberofRespondents
Football Commentary
Do the
Participants Like
to Pay Attention
to Football
Commentary?
Are Football
Commentators
English Native
Speakers?
Figure 2. General Knowledge of Football Commentary

14. FINDINGS & DISCUSSION (4)
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
English
Premier
League
Serie A BBVA League
(La Liga)
Bundesliga Other
NumberofRespondents
Understanding Accents Used in
Football Commentary The Most Difficult Accent
The Easiest Accent
Figure 3. Specific Knowledge of Football Commentary in connection
with Football Commentators’ Accents

15. FINDINGS & DISCUSSION (5)
League Total Percentage
(%)
Reason(s) Percentage
(%)
English
Premier
25% (n=2) Pronunciation
Speed of Speech
50%
50%
Serie A 25% (n=2) Vocabulary
Pronunciation
Speed of Speech
33%
33%
33%
BBVA (La Liga) 12% (n=1) Pronunciation 100%
Bundesliga 38% (n=3) Pronunciation 100%
Other 0% (n=0)
Table 1. The Most Difficult Accent Presented in Football Commentary

16. FINDINGS & DISCUSSION (6)
League Total Percentage
(%)
Reason Percentage
(%)
English
Premier
63% (n=5) Vocabulary
Pronunciation
Familiarity
17%
50%
33%
Serie A 0% (n=0)
BBVA (La Liga) 25% (n=2) Pronunciation
Speed of Speech
50%
50%
Bundesliga 12% (n=1) Pronunciation 100%
Other 0% (n=0)
Table 2. The Easiest Accent Presented in Football Commentary

17. FINDINGS & DISCUSSION (7)
No Implication Total Percentage
(%)
1 Knowing the real situation on the field 16%
2 Knowing correct pronunciation 21%
3 Knowing new vocabulary 21%
4 Updating information about football 16%
5 Increasing listening sensitivity 16%
6 Increasing the tension of football
match
10%
Table 3. The Implications of Football Commentary

18. FINDINGS & DISCUSSION (8)
Examples of Football Player’s
Names which were difficult to
pronounce
Examples of new
vocabularies/phrases

19. FINDINGS & DISCUSSION (9)
Trudgill (1995) suggests, “Whenever we speak, we
cannot avoid giving our listeners clues about our
origins and the sort of person we are. Our accent
and our speech generally show where we come
from, and what sort of background we have”
(Wray et al., 2004, p. 88).
Holmes said that language used in
football commentary was different
from daily conversation, particularly
the vocabulary (2001, p. 152).
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20. CONCLUSION
New
Vocabularies
Correct
Pronunciation
Sense of Football
• Knowing new
vocabularies
• Updating information
about football
• Knowing correct
pronunciation
• Knowing the real situation
on the field
• Increasing listening
sensitivity
• Increasing the tension of
football matches