The Use of Humor in Teaching Listening

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10.2991/assehr.k.201201.147How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Humour, teaching listening, pedagogical system

Abstract

Humour is an effective teaching tool as it can encourage an atmosphere of openness, enlarge students’ diverse thinking, and develop their retention of the presented materials. Most importantly humor has been a part of our pedagogical system. Humor is applied to teach languages concerning the major skills reading, writing, listening, and speaking. This paper takes up the concept of the application of humour in teaching English Listening. The purpose of this study was to show that humorous materials bring a lot of positive impacts to the students. They learn more effectively, improve the learning process, and help retention and recalling voices in the listening process. The experimental group and control group used to investigate the potential benefits of using humour in listening class. The results showed that the exposure to humorous activities in the classroom tends to improve the student’s comprehension of the most difficult assignments in their listening book.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fithriyah Inda Nur Abida
AU  - Rahayu Kuswardani
AU  - Oikurema Purwati
AU  - Diana Budi Darma
AU  - Widyastuti
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/03
TI  - The Use of Humor in Teaching Listening
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities (IJCAH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 882
EP  - 885
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201201.147
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201201.147
ID  - Abida2020
ER  -