5. Objectives
These study aims that technique of watching soundtrack movies can improve listening skill of student or not.
6. Key Research Questions
These are key research questions:
1. Can watching soundtrack movies improve listening skill on students?
2. How can watching soundtrack movies improve listening skill for students?
3. How do students have attitude to this research?
7. Scope of Researcher
The scope of this study involves improving listening skill from watching soundtrack movies. The researchers will cooperate with students in EG4083 Literature and Criticism through Movie course for participation to this research.
8. Definition of Terms
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9. Expected Benefits
The research outcomes are expected to see the development in listening skills of students, and want this research to be a useful thing for other groups of Thai people who also want to improve their listening skills.
10. Relevant Literature Review
This study is related to the effect of watching soundtrack movies on students’ listening skill. There are many research studies in this area. For example, Yanarom (2014) explained that student can develop their listening skill by using soundtrack movies to be the material.
Most people were born with hearing and listening skill, but they cannot use it perfectly. According to Yagang said that listening is the ability to identify and understand what others are saying and listening also concerning about sound, word, sentence, and grammar. Generally, people are receiving language through the ears; involve identifying the sounds of speech and processing them into words and sentences. Thomlison (1984) defines listening as active listening, which is very important for effective communication. Listening can be also defined as more than just hearing, understanding, and interpreting the meaning of a conversation. Good listening skills include the understanding ability, body language, and eye contact, so these things can make people successful in workplace, family, and society.
Because most people are non-native language, they can have problems with listening. Harmer (2001) explained that there are two types of listening, external and internal. The external listening is hearing come from outside such as listening to the radio or television, songs, and native speakers. The internal listening is hearing from inside like in class, family, friends, and so on. There are 62% of non-native people had external listening problems on the other hand there are only 12% had problems with internal listening (Burford, 2002).