Randall’s cyber listening lab and listening comprehension

Abstract

Randall’s cyber listening Lab is an educational website that has a multimedia online listening service whose aim is to help learners to improve English listening comprehension. The main objective of this work is to analyze the influence of Randall’s cyber listening Lab website on improving listening comprehension. This research was carried out under a quantitative approach and a pre-experimental design, in which one group of 14 students from 10th grade at Unidad Educativa Augusto N. Martinez, with ages between 14 to 15 years old were evaluated through a pre-test and a post-test which were taken from the Cambridge exam A2 KET (Key English Test) for schools, listening section, parts 3 and 4. The results revelated that there was a slight improvement of 1,2 points in the students’ scores after the treatment due to the use of authentic material from Randall’s website such as audio, videos, and online resources made by natives helped learners to improve their listening skills in a natural way. In addition, the verification of the hypothesis was gathered and interpreted by using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) statistical software. The result of the Wilcoxon rank test was ,001 which represents the significance, showing that the alternative hypothesis (H1), Randall’s cyber listening Lab influenced on improving students’ listening comprehension, was accepted. Finally, the results showed that Randall’s website improves vocabulary, intonation and pronunciation helping students understand in a more effective way English language, thus they can be able to make inferences, and listen to the main ideas and specific details from a message.