The Use of Online and Offline Video in English Listening Comprehension Assessment: Students' Perception

Abstract

The qualitative study aims to know the university students” perception on the use of online and offline video in assessing their English listening comprehension. It used an explanatory research design involving 35 students as the respondents. It employed a questionnaire and an interview to get the data analyzed using the concept of learning and assessment media. The study reveals that the students perceive positively the use of online and offline videos in listening comprehension assessment. They offer communicative English covering vocabularies and expressions used in the real context or situation of everyday English. The authentic materials with a good setting visualization motivate the students to do the assessments. The students prefer movie, songs, and news to other assessment materials, because they can present various models of English native speakers' communication interaction. Assessing listening comprehension using the online videos is more efficient and flexible than the offline videos. It can provide the students with a real time feedback and score after finishing the assessments. The study finds out barriers they undergo when taking the listening comprehension assessment, like identifying fast pronunciation, spoken academic discourse using unfamiliar jargons and registers; and technical issues, like bad internet connection. The study concludes that the use of online or offline video in listening comprehension assessment can expose the ESL students to the context-based communication interaction that enhances their listening skill.