Using Authentic Videos to Improve English Listening Skills of Dong Nai Technology University Non English Majored Students

Since English communication skills are crucial for students to have good careers in the future, this paper aims at finding the difficulties that students at Dong Nai Technology University encounter when learning listening skills and how multimedia learning materials can help them improve these skills. Students have critical difficulties in English listening because most of the Vietnamese high schools pay more attention to grammar, reading, and vocabulary. Listening is not an important part of many course books and most teachers do not pay attention to this vital skill in their classes. In this paper, the researchers reviewed the terms listening, factors causing learning listening difficulties. The review of literature indicated that when teachers are aware of students' listening difficulties they can help their students to develop effective listening strategies and finally solve students' difficulties in listening English as well as improve students' listening abilities. Ha Thi Yen Nhi "Using Authentic Videos to Improve English Listening Skills of Dong Nai Technology University Non-English Majored Students" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-2 , February 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd38334.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/38334/using-authentic-videos-to-improve-english-listening-skills-of-dong-nai-technology-university-nonenglish-majored-students/ha-thi-yen-nhi