USING TED TALKS IN TEACHING LISTENING TO ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM STUDENTS

Abstract

The objective of this research is to discuss using TED Talks in teaching listening to English Education Study Prorgam Suryakancana University, Cianjur. This research used the descriptive qualitative method. Based on the findings, it shows that TED Talks can help students learn a variety of skills on English skills such as listening and speaking. In listening TED Talks can be used for listening comprehension because TED Talks is indeed one of the sites that can be used for that and it is very helpful. TED Talks can enhance motivation for learning listening because the video does not only contain motivation, and also the language used in the video used full English so that we are motivated to have very good public speaking like in the videos. The fact that TED talks are delivered by native English speakers from around the world enables students to see selected TED presentations about a topic of interest to them by just listening to an English native. They can help develop their listening comprehension, vocabulary, and can motivated learning listening. Students can access English-language TED Talks videos that showcase speeches or presentations from world inspirational figures from various fields with various interesting topics. With simple classroom resources, Teaching listening using TED Talks in English Education Study Program is good to used. This study was conducted in Suryakancana University, Cianjur for 2 weeks. The instruments in the research were observations and documentary.