(SKKN 2022) applying ITC knowledge and using webtools to help teachers and students at thanh hoa ethnic boarding high school practice listening to news

THANH HOA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRANING THANH HOA ETHNIC BOARDING HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE “APPLYING ICT KNOWLEDGE AND USING WEBTOOLS TO HELP TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AT THANH HOA ETHNIC BOARDING HIGH SCHOOL PRACTICE LISTENING TO NEWS” The author: Phạm Thị Giang Job position: Teacher Experience initiative about: English THANH HOA - 2022 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page s I INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale for topic choice Aims of study Methodology Scope of the study II SOLVING THE PROBLEM Rationale 1 The importance of listening to news with gifted students 1.2 Websites and channels should teachers and students access to practice listening to news? Reality 2.1 Advantages 2.2 Disadvantages Measures for implementing solution of topic 3.1 Instruction to install and use iSpring suite software 3.1.1 Steps to install iSpring suite 3.1.2 Steps to use iSpring suite 3.2 Instruction to use iSpring suite 9’s functions 3.3 Demonstration 15 Findings 18 III CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 29 Conclusion 20 Recommendation 20 I INTRODUCTION Rationale Why learning English is a piece of cake to someone but hardship to another one is a question that faces teachers and learners for a long time Among skills of English language learners, Listening comprehension is essential to L2 learning Pupils who are able to demonstrate L2 listening skills are able to demonstrate proficiency in other language skills Listening, as far as we know, is an important and pivotal component of a language; thus, teaching listening is also important The students tend to think grammar is more important Listening is the act of hearing attentively Researchers have demonstrated that adult spend 40-50% with listening, 25-30% with speaking, 11-16% reading and 9% with reading (Vandergrift, 2004)We listen more than we speak If this listening skill is used in a proper way we can master the tools of communicative skills For students who major in English, listening skill especially listening to news is extremely important because News is important for a number of reasons within a society Mainly to inform the public about events that are around them and may affect them Often news is for entertainment purposes too; to provide a distraction of information about other places people are unable to get to or have little influence over News can make people feel connected too News is important as a social gathering space too, hence newspapers either online or physical place an emphasis on news In order to help students to be aware of their learning problems, to gain some techniques and ICT skills when practicing listening skill through news; the teachers will also benefit from the findings of the research in working out an effective way to assist their students in teaching listening skill for students major in English, I decide to to the topic: “APPLYING ICT KNOWLEDGE AND USING WEBTOOLS TO HELP TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AT THANH HOA ETHNIC BOARDING HIGH SCHOOL PRACTICE LISTENING TO NEWS” Aims of the study The study aims at providing students with some techniques and tips to practice listening skill especially listening to news through CNN breaking news or VOA breaking news, additionally, This small action research wants to suggest teachers of English applying “Task-based learning” method in terms of teaching listening to news, too Scope of the study Due to the limited time and small scale of the research, it is only conducted in the context of Thanh Hoa Ethnic Boarding high school with the participation of only teachers and 35 students of grade 12 Research methods 35 students were divided into Groups (5 students per group) All groups were taught techniques and ICT skills applied in listening to news through CNN breaking news or VOA breaking news, and they were well equipped with instructions related to “task-based learning” when practice listening to news II DEVELOPMENT LITERATURE REVIEW 1 The importance of listening to news with students As far as we know, human beings in every country in the world need to stay informed because they need to be updated and to be given information about all aspects of daily life Undoubtedly, reading/listening/watching the news is the effective way to be well-updated because of the following reasons: - Some people still don’t get clearly about detail in country and foreign country, yet Especially all of this news we can get a lot of useful things and development of each region over the world Include every crisis which happening through the region So advantages of listening there is a lot of knowledge to all students that always listen and watch English news through television and radio on BBC - News is network for spreading every event and action happen, such as development and another in society nowadays The information we got from radio, television, internet and another network, share good experiences to people which that is a useful point Made people understand to know, like listening news more - Some programs through listening with relax news, general knowledge which offers a lot of experiences to consider and practice idea 1.2 Websites and channels should teachers and students access to practice listening to news? In fact, there are quite a lot of websites or channels that students can access to practice listening to news such as: CNN, VOA, BBC, FOX News, TED, RFR……, However, from my viewpoint, below are the most suitable for students: - http://edition.cnn.com/studentnews/ - http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/news_levels.htm - http://www.newsinlevels.com/ These channels are suitable and helpful for both teachers and students of English because they are not only easy to use but also well-designed with tasks and keys to check Therefore, when accessing them students can practice listening skill and selfevaluate the improvement, teachers can use these tasks as pedagogical materials in teaching listening skill 1.3 Task-based learning in practicing listening to news 1.3.1 What is Task-based learning? Task-based language learning has its origins in communicative language teaching, and is a subcategory of it According to Wikipedia, Task-based learning or Task-based language teaching (TBLT), also known as task-based instruction (TBI), focuses on the use of authentic language and on asking students to meaningful tasks using the target language 1.3.2 Why should we use “Task-based learning” technique when teaching listening to news? Assessment is primarily based on task outcome (in other words the appropriate completion of real world tasks) rather than on accuracy of prescribed language forms This makes TBLT especially popular for developing target language fluency and student confidence As a demanding language skill, listening has frequently been underestimated by students and educators in the field of second language acquisition because effective listening skills are developed over time with lots of practice but listening practices seem limited and the activities are most of the time decontextualized or inappropriate for students Generally speaking, listening has attracted the least attention among the four language skills because it was regarded as a passive skill Many listening classes still heavily rely on decontextualized listening activities which are not meaningful enough to motivate students and enhance their listening abilities The emergence of communicative language teaching (CLT) and the shift in language teaching from developing the linguistic competence to communicative competence was the starting point where listening skill has been considered as an active skill Stemming from CLT, task-based language teaching focuses on communicative purpose of language and the final outcome of the tasks as they are used in everyday life (Najmeh Maghsoudi, 2017) SOLUTIONS 2.1 Necessary ICT skills for English learners With the boom of Internet, English learners must master some ICT skills to learn English in digital era Particularly, when practice listening skills, both teachers and students of English need to be provided the following tools: 2.1.1 From text to speech http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/ This tool is used to convert any English text into MP3 audio file and play it on your PC or smartphones 2.1.2 Speech to text: https://speech-to-text-demo.ng.bluemix.net/ This tool is used to convert MP3 audio file into English text to create transcription 2.1.3 YouTube to Mp3: https://ytmp3.cc/ This tool is often used to convert a video on youtube into mp3 file There are steps to convert a video file on youtube into mp3 file: Step 1: Open a video file on Youtube and copy the link Step 2: Open YouTube to Mp3 and paste link and click convert to Mp3 Step 3: Wait for converting process and click “download” button 2.1.4 Create English subtitles for videos on Youtube - Case 1: For Videos with available subtitles Open video news on Youtube, click the button and choose Phu de – Tieng Anh - Case 2: For Videos with unavailable subtitl Step 1: Open the video news on Youtube and copy link Step 2: Use the tool “Youtube to MP3” to create the MP3 file of the video Step 3: Use the tool “Speech to text” to create the transcription 2.2 Exploitation of online materials with a view to teaching and practicing listening to news 2.2.1 Use available websites to practice listening to news a http://edition.cnn.com/studentnews/: This site is not divided by level but has very rich content with many topics Besides, listen and feel the typical American accent if students have a need to study in the US In addition, this website gives you a lot of audio content suitable for sessions in sessions from to 3, even some session matching articles There are both short and long songs for us to select b http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/news_levels.html This Breaking News English website helps students experience all listening levels Each level is an increasing difficulty with vocabulary, speaking speed and content interfering techniques that make it harder to hear Below each lesson, there are exercises about filling in - gap filling and True False - very good for Multiple Choice A great tip to take advantage of this page is: Students have a good listening ability, take the song at level then read the True False section at level and then the test Or vice versa, They will see the level of doing Multiple Choice at Session 3.4 very fast because you are exposed to listening and understanding information very well, and you are accustomed to being fooled by linguistic elements The advice for students is to listen to a song, listen to all levels, they will see how well they fit to continue listening from there In addition, this page has a good reading speed or helps speed up reading For teachers, this Website is really a helpful source of pedagogical materials to teach listening skill because it provides them all exercises aiming at testing listening skill of students at all levels This useful resource has hundreds of ideas, activity templates, reproducible activities for Teachers needn’t spend time designing exercises and preparing lessons plan because in each unit there are full steps:  warm-ups  pre-reading and listening  while-reading and listening  post-reading and listening  using headlines  working with words  moving from text to speech  role plays,  task-based activities  discussions and debates Here is a Sample: Warm – ups THE ARCTIC: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about the Arctic Change partners often and share your findings CHAT: In pairs/ group, talk about these topic or words from the article What will the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life? wildfires / Arctic Circle / planet / smoke / space / meteorologists / Alaska / Siberia / globla warming / temperatures / average / lightning / ice / methane / atmosphere Have a chat about the topic you like Change topics and partners frequently WILDFIRES: Students A strongly believe all countries should send resources to put out the Arctic Circle wildfires; Students B strongly believe that’s not necessary Change partners again and talk about your conversations CLIMATE CHANGE: How serious are these problems? How can we deal with this? Comlete this table with your partner(s) ? Change partners often and share what you wrote How Serious? What We Can Do Wildfires Droughts Hurricanes Heatwaves Rising sea levels Melting glaciers PLANET: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word "planet" Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them Together, put the words into different categories GLOBAL WARMING: Rank these with your partner Put the biggest causes of global warming at the top Change partners often and share your rankings  factory farming  wildfires  use of aerosols  cars  overfishing  deforestation  inability to change  use of coal Before reading / listening TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline Guess if 1-8 below are true (T) or false (F) The article said there are thousands of fires burning in the Arctic Circle T / F The Arctic Circle is warming at half the speed as the rest of the planet This wildfire season is the worst ever for the Arctic Circle T/F T/F The Greenland ice sheet started melting a month later than usual T/F Gap fill: Put these words into the spaces in the paragraph below twice ever covering so control huge usual record Hundreds of (1) wildfires have broken out all across the Arctic Circle Areas in the Arctic are warming (2) as fast as anywhere else on the planet There are so many fires and they are (3) big that the smoke from them can be seen from space Meteorologists report that the Arctic is having its hottest June (4) _and is suffering its worst wildfire season on (5) There are huge blazes (6) large areas of Greenland, Siberia, Scandinavia and Alaska In Alaska, there are as many as 400 fires burning out of (7) In Greenland, melting on the vast Greenland ice sheet has started a month earlier than (8) The World Meteorological Organization has said the Arctic fires are "unprecedented" Listening — Guess the answers Listen to check 1) Hundreds of huge wildfires have broken out Arctic Circle a all a cross the b all a crossed the c all axis the d all across the 2) the Arctic is having its hottest June ever and is suffering its worst wildfire a seasonal on record b season on record c seasoned on record d seasons on record 3) In Alaska, there are as many as 400 fires burning a out of control b out off control c outer control d out a control 4) melting on the vast Greenland ice sheet has started a month a earlier that usual b earlier then usual c earlier than usual d earlier that's usual 5) he World Meteorological Organization has said the Arctic fires a are "un-presented" b are "a presented" c are "unprecedented" d are "up press indented" Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps Hundreds of huge wildfires have broken (1) _ the Arctic Circle Areas in the Arctic are warming twice as (2) else on the planet There are so many fires and they are so big that the smoke from them can be (3) _ Meteorologists report that the Arctic is having its hottest June ever and is suffering its worst wildfire season on record There are (4) _ large areas of Greenland, Siberia, Scandinavia and Alaska In Alaska, there are as many as 400 fires burning (5) _ In Greenland, melting on the vast Greenland ice sheet has started a month (6) The World Meteorological Organization has said the Arctic fires are "unprecedented" Comprehension questions What has started melting a month earlier than usual? What did scientists say could have an effect on global warming? What has been increasing at a much faster rate than the global average? What is burning methane releasing into the atmosphere? How many animals have the fires killed? Multiple choice quiz 1) How many fires did the article say are burning in the Arctic Circle? a) 182 b) thousands c) dozens d) hundreds 2) What kind of season is the worst ever for the Arctic Circle? a) rainy season b) its wildfire season c) summer d) autumn 3) How many fires are burning out of control in Alaska? a) exactly 400 b) well over 400 c) as many as 400 d) about 400 4) What has started melting a month earlier than usual? a) the Greenland ice sheet b) the Siberian tundra c) Norwegian fjords d) ice cream 5) What did the World Meteorological Organization call the fires? a) scary b) a huge danger to the world c) unprecedented d) manageable Role play Role A – Wildfires You think wildfires are the biggest causes of global warming Tell the others three reasons why Tell them why their things aren't as bad Also, tell the others which is the least damaging of these (and why): cars, deforestation or inability to change Role B – Cars You think cars the biggest causes of global warming Tell the others three reasons why Tell them why their things aren't as bad Also, tell the others which is the least damaging of these (and why): wildfires, deforestation or inability to change Role C – Deforestation You think deforestation is biggest cause of global warming Tell the others three reasons why Tell them why their things aren't as bad Also, tell the others which is the least damaging of these (and why): cars, wildfires or inability to change Role D – Inability to Change You think our inability to change is biggest cause of global warming Tell the others three reasons why Tell them why their things aren't as bad Also, tell the others which is the least damaging of these (and why): cars, deforestation or wildfires After reading / listening WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words 'wild'    and 'fire'          • Share your findings with your partners • Make questions using the words you found • Ask your partner / group your questions ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text •Share your questions with other classmates / groups •Ask your partner / group your questions GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise Check your answers Talk about the words from the activity Were they new, interesting, worth learning…? VOCABULARY: Circle any words you not understand In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text: effect  broken rate  space grow  ever strong  huge methane  control loss  usual Student survey Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table Do this in pairs Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper When you have finished, interview other students Write down their answers Discussion - Arctic wildfires visible from space STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B) What did you think when you read the headline? What images are in your mind when you hear the word 'wildfire'? What you think of global warming? How often are there wildfires in your country? How has the weather been recently in your country? STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A) Did you like reading this article? Why/not? What you think about what you read? What you know about global warming? What three adjectives best describe this story? 10.What will the world's climate be like in 20, 50 and 100 years from now? Discussion — Write your own questions STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B) show these to student A) (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) Free writing Write about Arctic wildfires for 10 minutes Comment on your partner’s paper Homework VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text Use a dictionary or Google's search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about this news story Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson THE ARCTIC: Make a poster about the Arctic Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson Did you all have similar things? WILDFIRES: Write a magazine article about governments spending more money to fight wildfires Include imaginary interviews with people who are for and against this.Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson Write down any new 14 words and expressions you hear from your partner(s) WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Write a newspaper article about the next stage in this news story Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson Give each other feedback on your articles LETTER: Write a letter to an expert on the Arctic Ask him/her three questions about it Give him/her three of your ideas on how we can protect it Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson Your partner(s) will answer your questions c http://www.newsinlevels.com/ This is a level-sharing site with tests to help you know where you are Students the test first, then base on the level of development This page should be used to listen every day because of little or even no exercises 2.2.2 Listening to news through videos on Youtube a CNN breaking news on Youtube This channel provides us a series of breaking news related to many topics, many aspects of our daily life Students can watch, listen and look at the subtitles on the screen if necessary and practice listening skill This source not give exercises for students Only a video file is provided here Therefore, Learners should use it as a raw material, and base on it to design exercises by using tools to produce transcription or subtitles 15 b VOA news on Youtube Like CNN breaking news on Youtube, VOA news on Youtube is really an useful channel which gives us a series of breaking news Accessing this channel, students can watch and listen piece of news with subtitles on the screen 2.3 Use the technique “Task-based learning” to motivate students to practice listening to news We know that students can learn well if they are well-motivated Therefore, we need to know how to motivate even unmotivated students In case of helping students to practice listening to news, Motivating students is really important because listening in general and listening to news seem to be difficult for learners, so they are often lazy to practice this skill For this reason, Task-based learning technique seems to be suitable to solve this problem Listening comprehension will be enhanced if tasks (with communicative purposes) are used instead of decontextualized exercises Advocating the concept of task, Dunkel (1986, p 104) puts forward: “The students 16 should be required to something in response to what they hear that will demonstrate their understanding" Examples of tasks are making an appointment, making a hotel reservation, filling out a form, labelling a map, etc Dunkel (1986, p 104) has classified listening tasks into the following types: Matching: requires learners to listen to a text and then match a numbered list of items with a set of options The purpose of this task is to evaluate how well learners can listen to details Labelling: requires learners to select the labels from a list which best match the blank parts of a visual task (Dunkel, 1986) The purpose of this task is to assess students’ ability to understand descriptions of a place which usually includes spatialand direction-related expressions such as opposite to, in front of, etc Selecting (multiple choice): this listening task requires learners to listen to a text and answer some questions each with 3-4 choices This task type aims to check the learners’ detailed or general understanding of the main points of the listening text and their ability to answer some questions Form-filling: this listening task requires learners to listen to a text and complete the information requested and it evaluates the learners’ ability to evaluate the relationships and details Sentence completion: this listening task requires learners to listen to sentences which summarize the key information of the text and complete a gap in each sentence using information from the listening text The purpose is to measure the learners’ ability to focus on the main points of the text Summary completion: this listening task requires learners to complete a summary which contains a number of gaps and it assesses learners’ understanding of the overall meaning and main points of the section summarized Short-answer questions: this listening task requires learners to listen to a text and read a set of related questions to which they have to write a short answer Such tasks evaluate learners’ ability to listen for concrete facts such as places or times (Dunkel, 1986, p.104) Here, a distinction should be made between receptive and productive listening activities The first three task types are referred to as receptive because they assess understanding when one listens On the other hand, the next three task types are called productive skills and they assess students’ understanding and interpretation and are, thus, more demanding since the learner has to focus on the content of listening as well as production of the appropriate content (Dunkel, 1986) Although task-based activitiesThe Impact of Task-based Language Teaching on Listening Skill of Iranian EFL Learners 244 have recently received paramount attention in language learning, a few empirical studies have explored their impact on listening comprehension The present study focuses on labelling (as a receptive listening task) and form-filling (as a productive listening task) to see if their implementation has any effect on listening ability of Iranian EFL learners In my case study, I apply “Task-based learning” to give a hand students to improve listening skill by carrying out the following process: Step 1: Get students prepare listening tasks 17 The aim of this activity is to make students listen to the authentic materials on a regular basis and form their awareness in taking full use of each piece of material The source of material ideal for this purpose is CNN Student News on CNN channel This is non-commercial news program lasting in 10 minutes and broadcasted every day except for the weekends This frequency of the news enables students to practice listening day by day Besides, the coverage of the news relates closely with the everyday news broadcasted on official channels such as VTV1, which makes it more appealing and comprehensible to students For this task, I divide my class into groups of four to five students so that they can supervise and offer help for each other if needed Each group can choose any piece of news during the week, download the transcripts from the CNN website and design listening exercises such as Multiple-choice questions or Fill-in-the-gap questions and so on At the end of the week, students have to hand in their questions and keys together with their piece of news, or at least the link to that All together, there are about to 10 exercises collected each week and they will be made into a small booklet and handed out back to every class members as homework or assignment in the next week Teacher can also choose some pieces of news among this to use as listening material in listening lesson Class members can also vote for the most useful piece of listening I have carried out this activity since the beginning of the school year and accumulated vast source of listening materials The best thing is my students now have a habit of following the news streamline on television and find no longer distant to authentic materials Step 2: Presentation After working in group to choose a topic in a piece of news and designing listening tasks, each group takes the responsibility for presenting the outcome in front of the class and asking other groups to listen to the piece of news and the listening task prepared This activity is aimed at testing and evaluating listening ability of students Outcome of the study With the application of ideas mentioned in this study, after a semester, objectively, the students in chosen class seem to improve in listening skill especially listening to news Most students are able to use web tools to design listening tasks and they can learn how to cooperate in dealing with a specific task as well as the workload can be reduced and students feel more responsible for their part This following collection is an example of my students working together to design exercises basing on CNN Student News GROUP 1: CNN STUDENT NEWS 23/10/2021 U.S Special Forces recently participated in a dangerous overnight mission in Iraq The Pentagon says the ISIS (1) group was about to execute dozens of (2) at a prison in northern Iraq U.S troops, along with Iraqi forces and others from the region stormed to the prison before yesterday 18 American officials say 70 hostages were rescued They included (3) , Iraqi troops and some members of the ISIS terrorist group that had been accused of spying More than 20 ISIS (4) were killed in the raid and one American service member was killed It was the first time than an American died in ground (5) with ISIS In 2014, President Obama had (6) that no U.S troops would be involved in ISIS ground combat but he later said that special operations forces could play a role in certain missions In Washington, D.C., former U.S secretary of state and current (7) presidentall candidate Hillary Clinton testified on Capitol Hill yesterday A (8) panel was questioning her about the decision as secretary when a U.S compound in Benghazi, Libya was attacked on September 11th, 2012 (9) on the panel say there are still serious questions for her to answer about what happened Moreover, several (10) involving Clinton had been held since then Democrats say they are Republican attempts to hurt Clinton’s presidential ambitions GROUP 3: CNN STUDENTS NEWS NOVEMBER 12 TH , 2021 First up, remember American servicemen and women Yesterday was Veterans Day in the U.S., an occasion to honor anyone who`s ever served in the American military President Obama took part of the traditional wreath- laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns It`s a (1) .at Arlington National Cemetery and a resting place for U.S troops whose remains were never identified The president also discussed improvements at the Veterans Administration The government organization gives medical care and (2) to people who`ve served in the military Even under the best (3) , service men and women returning from war face huge challenges transitioning to civilian life But as JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon knows well, vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan were walking into an economy in shambles They bore an(4) for the rest of us And, you know, something like 200,000 coming out of the system Every year and for a while, they have very high unemployment rates Navy veteran Jay Siembieda joined JPMorgan as a private banker in 2009 And he helps the company`s HR team (5) and mentor troops walking off the battlefield and into corporate America The veterans are among the great (6 ) of America And as you know, since 9/11, they have been bearing a (7) burden for the rest of us So, we want to our share to bring them back into society and give them jobs And so, the mission has been a wonderful thing for the company and for the veterans A mystery is rising over the Great Pyramid of Giza The architectural (8) dating back about 4,500 years is the only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world that`s still standing An international group of researchers is using lasers and drones to scan and see inside the Egyptian pyramid They recently announced that they found several thermal anomalies, areas that have temperatures unlike the rest of the (9) It could be cracks or holes inside the structure It could be secret passage ways or undiscovered tombs 19 This August, two treasure hunters said they found it, a 100-meter or 330-foot-long gold train, possibly with treasure worth millions of dollars The train is thought to be hidden in an(10) of tunnels the Nazis dug They extend beneath Poland`s mountainous Walbrzych District Now, a new search is on Teams of inspectors have been allowed to start investigating the area GROUP 5: CNN Student news November 16, 2021 When it comes to(1) , nothing competes with YouTube There`s 300 hours of (2) to the site every minute But being big makes it harder to change And right now, the biggest name on online video has (3) set on the smallest screen I (4) so many cakes in a day But I can make that cake and I can put it out on YouTube and its reach is endless Elise Strachan is a(5) Over the past four years, her baking videos have earned her over million(6) And like the rest of YouTube, half of her views come from(7) You`re in these people`s bedrooms You know, you`re on the (8) with them You`re at school when they`re not probably, they`re looking at their phones But you`re going everywhere with them That kind of (9) with viewers is something new from media makers And it could pay off big time Mobile revenue for YouTube is up 100 percent year over year And global business head Robert Kinzel doesn`t see it going down Mobile will drive most business, especially in advertising Mobile consumption has been (10) and it`s growing twice the rate of anything else In terms of teachers, they feel very happy when exploiting pedagogical materials from websites or channels mentioned in this study Designed listening tasks from these websites are very helpful 20 III CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION CONCLUSION Teaching is not a repetitive work, it always require inspiration and creativeness Teachers themselves are always on the way of learning and discovering the subject Not always one tool can meet all your need However, when you turn to it, there is no bound for utilizing Mass Media for learning and teaching English Internet has changed our society intensively We have already been familiar with email, e-business, e-parliament, e-commerce, and study on the internet is not a faraway It has created great chance for a normal person to achieve great goals without any impediment of age, social or economic status, gender or race To some extent, it lessens the social inequality That we take advantage of Internet through some websites or channels and use ICT knowledge, web tools to practice listening to news is extremely important because in digital era, information is always updated through mass media and social network, and with a mobile device connected to the Internet students are able to both practice listening to news and update information This paper is written with the hope to share some experience of my own, therefore, the suggestions and techniques are likely to be subjective and incomplete Any comments and suggestions will be welcome and highly appreciated RECOMMENDATION Listening to news is undoubtedly difficult to students because it asks them to have a rich lexical resources and to practice everyday in order to be familiar with the speed and the accent of native speakers If students want to improve their listening skill to news, they will have to take advantages of websites or channels and use web tools to 21 create the transcript, which is really helpful for students when watching and listening to news In addition, Students should make full use of listening tasks designed from some websites as a way to self-evaluate their own improvement Listening to news is one of the effective ways to learn English, to practice listening skill and to help English learners familiarize the accent and the speed of native speakers Therefore, teaching and orienting students to practice listening to new is very necessary In order to make it better, I suggest the following ways: First, it is necessary to inform students about the importance of practicing listening to news in learning English Students need to know that listening to news is a key to master English, and they should be motivated to listening to news anywhere, anytime with passion Second, Both teachers and students need being trained ICT skills to work with digital and mobile devices such as laptop, smartphone, tablet…….when listening to news through websites or channels because thanks to these devices we can practice listening to news everywhere and anytime Finally, for teachers and leaders in high schools, it is necessary to pay attention to motivate students to listen to news and use effective 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Methodology in TESOL Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House 23 ... way to assist their students in teaching listening skill for students major in English, I decide to to the topic: ? ?APPLYING ICT KNOWLEDGE AND USING WEBTOOLS TO HELP TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AT THANH. .. need to know how to motivate even unmotivated students In case of helping students to practice listening to news, Motivating students is really important because listening in general and listening. .. thanks to these devices we can practice listening to news everywhere and anytime Finally, for teachers and leaders in high schools, it is necessary to pay attention to motivate students to listen to