| Summary: | 碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 應用外語研究所 === 98 === English multimedia materials provide rich authentic language input for learners. Audio and visual aids are incorporated to foster the process of conceptualization. Previous researches have shown that English TV programs or movies have been considered as a powerful and useful media for the learning of a new foreign language. Media is a power to learn the new language. However, by using media, linguistically authentic materials tend to increase the complexity what is understood by the learners due to their rate of speech, accent and themes. The objective of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of linguistically authentic multimedia materials on (of) English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students’ listening competence. More specifically, the present study seeks to examine how to enhance English as Foreign Language (EFL) students’ listening comprehension skills by using authentic materials in listening classes. In this study, students were convenience selected from listening class in the Department of Applied Foreign Languages at one university in Taichung County, Taiwan as participants. The instructor used the CNN Interactive Magazine’s MP3 packages and other materials for each session which including TV programmers, commercials, MTV movies and shows, songs, online materials, radio broadcasts and movie clips. The results of the statistical analyses in this study indicate that the participants’ listening competence did improve through the instruction of using authentic multimedia materials after a whole school year. Moreover, from the questionnaire and the interview, most of the participants mentioned that using these authentic sessions of the CNN Interactive MP3s to practice English listening is useful. The participants also thought their listening competence had improved by using authentic multimedia materials in the lessons. Thus, this study hopes to contribute to teaching aid selection, and how these aids can be controlled or manipulated for maximum students’ learning benefits. In a nutshell, this study preliminarily conducted an investigation on the connection between linguistically authentic multimedia materials and learners’ listening competence. The result of the present study may provide some different aspects of English teaching and learning.
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