SCIENCE AND EDUCATION IN THE MODERN WORLD: CHALLENGES OF THE XXI CENTURY" ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN, FEBRUARY 2023 44 The chart shows the difference in students’ progress when doing listening tasks on
authentic material. As it can be seen from the graph, the percentage of students who coped with
the tasks in the group grew in 3-5 times when students had been given a clear purpose and did
the task by gradually rising degree of difficulty. Striking growth while doing the
Write the numbers and
Identify the opinions tasks is seen. In both tasks the number of excellent students
grew in three times.
Discussion
The date being received says that step by step implementation of authentic material in the
low level classroom leads to students’ adaptation to the foreign language, they don’t experience
frustration and failure, the level of involvement is rising because each student has his or her own
task which is going to be checked and nobody can wait till a person did everything. The results
presented show that this research has positive effect on such a part of language learning as
listening which is known to be the most complicated one in many ESL students. The subjects
feel happier when making progress in listening authentic material, their interest and effectiveness
at lessons is gradually rising. Before conducting the experiment all of the subjects experienced
fear and frustration in the face of the tasks on authentic materials. Almost all of them refused
doing anything. However, now these students don’t experience fear and frustration in front of
listening tasks. Moreover, suggesting that continuous teaching listening in this way is possible.
In spite of more or less positive results, some limitations of the research take place. The tasks
were similar to each other and regular repetition of familiar structure might become boring for
students and even for teachers. Also, the research was directed only to one speech skill.
Conclusion
It can be concluded that authentic material should be introduced in ESL classroom even at
low levels of students’ language skills. The core of the problem that a teacher should choose the
material for working very clear and precise. Every task should be separated by several small
objectives, doing which can help better acquisition of language. The hypothesis for further
research consists in expanding the research, i.e. it is possible to connect listening tasks with
writing, reading or speaking and alternate this connection. What’s more, the form, timing,
procedures and purposes can vary. In addition, motivation sphere of this aspect can be studied. It
will lead to more effective language learning overall.
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